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Jon Herbert
Biography
Jon Herbert is the author of Life on the Dingleball Fringe. He was born in 1969 in Salt Lake City, UT. He is the youngest of six children and grew up in the Salt Lake County suburbs. He was raised in a Mormon household, went on an LDS mission and is also an Eagle Scout.
He began journaling at a very young age. He learned the five sentence patterns, how to memorize short stories and document nature from his father, who was an English teacher. He wrote his first book "Eleven Days in Paradise" (about a guy stranded on a desert island) in fifth grade. He nearly flunked sophomore high school business class for writing an unflattering essay about Chrysler and Lee Iacocca.
In the seventies, he would wander off into the gypsy dens of downtown Salt Lake, where he gained a love of the urban lifestyle. In the eighties, he spent his time on fraternity row at the University of Utah, but was never selected by any organization because of his inability to clench a green olive in his derrier for any extended period of time.
Unable to fit in, he enrolled in English Literature, 101 at the University of Utah where his professors informed him that reading Thomas Carlyle could help him with his "olive problem."
After reading Carlyle's "The Everlasting No" he wanted to leave his fraternity hopes behind and study literary criticism full time. He graduated in 1996 with a BA from the University of Utah English department.
He continues to write fiction. He spends his time in downtown Salt Lake City where he also manages a business.
He began journaling at a very young age. He learned the five sentence patterns, how to memorize short stories and document nature from his father, who was an English teacher. He wrote his first book "Eleven Days in Paradise" (about a guy stranded on a desert island) in fifth grade. He nearly flunked sophomore high school business class for writing an unflattering essay about Chrysler and Lee Iacocca.
In the seventies, he would wander off into the gypsy dens of downtown Salt Lake, where he gained a love of the urban lifestyle. In the eighties, he spent his time on fraternity row at the University of Utah, but was never selected by any organization because of his inability to clench a green olive in his derrier for any extended period of time.
Unable to fit in, he enrolled in English Literature, 101 at the University of Utah where his professors informed him that reading Thomas Carlyle could help him with his "olive problem."
After reading Carlyle's "The Everlasting No" he wanted to leave his fraternity hopes behind and study literary criticism full time. He graduated in 1996 with a BA from the University of Utah English department.
He continues to write fiction. He spends his time in downtown Salt Lake City where he also manages a business.