Gerald Everett Jones

Gerald Everett Jones is a freelance writer living in Santa Monica, California. He is perhaps best known as the author of the Rollo Hemphill series of comic novels and originator of the term boychik lit to describe the genre of male-centered humorous fiction. His stage play Hypatia of Alexandria, which is based on the research he describes in this essay, was a finalist in the 2000 Long Beach Playhouse New Works Festival, and his comedy screenplay Ballpoint, about the sensational introduction of the ballpoint pen in 1945, won him a Film Independent Fellowship in 2001. His book on ethical design of presentation graphics, How to Lie with Charts, has been adopted as courseware in university business and mathematics curriculums since its first publication in 1995.