Jon Winokur

Jon Winokur is the author of two dozen nonfiction books, including The Portable Curmudgeon (NAL, 1987) and its four sequels; Zen to Go (NAL, 1988 and Sasquatch, 2005); Advice to Writers (Pantheon, 1999); The Big Book of Irony (St. Martin's, 2007) and the critically acclaimed New York Times National Bestsellers The Garner Files: A Memoir, co-authored with James Garner (Simon & Schuster, 2011) and But Enough About Me: A Memoir, co-authored with Burt Reynolds (Putnam, 2015). Winokur maintains the popular AdviceToWriters.com and @AdviceToWriters Twitter feed. He lives in Los Angeles.