Jon Ronson is a writer and documentary filmmaker. His work includes the international bestsellers Them: Adventures With Extremists and The Men Who Stare at Goats, which was adapted into a major motion picture starring George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Kevin Spacey and Jeff Bridges.
A contributor to The Guardian, Ronson is the author of the columns “Human Zoo” and “Out of the Ordinary”. He writes and presents the BBC Radio 4 series, Jon Ronson On…
For Channel 4, Jon has made a number of films including the five-part series Secret Rulers of the World and Tottenham Ayatollah. His most recent documentaries are Reverend Death (Channel 4), Citizen Kubrick (More4) and Robbie Williams and Jon Ronson Journey to the Other Side (Radio 4).
In the US, he is a contributor to Public Radio International’s This American Life.
Books in order of publication:
| Clubbed Class | 1994 |
| Them: Adventures with Extremists | 2001 |
| The Men Who Stare at Goats | 2004 |
| Out of the Ordinary: True Tales of Everyday Craziness | 2006 |
| What I Do: More True Tales of Everyday Craziness | 2007 |
| The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry | 2011 |
| The Amazing Adventures of Phoenix Jones: And the Less Amazing Adventures of Some Other Real-Life Superheroes | 2011 |
| Lost At Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries | 2012 |
| Frank: The True Story that Inspired the Movie | 2014 |
| So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed | 2015 |
| The Elephant in the Room | 2016 |
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