The journalist and author, Jon Krampner, is a native of Brooklyn. He spent the Carter administration getting fired from small newspapers, then moved in 1980 to Los Angeles, where he taught English as a Second Language for 27 years in the adult division of the Los Angeles Unified School District. This provided him with the economic basis to produce his critically acclaimed but non-bestselling books, The Man in the Shadows: Fred Coe and the Golden Age of Television, Female Brando: The Legend of Kim Stanley, and Creamy and Crunchy: An Informal History of Peanut Butter, the All-American Food.

His latest book is Ernest Lehman: The Sweet Smell of Success, published by the University Press of Kentucky in 2024.

WEBSITES:

• Jon Krampner on Wikipedia

JOHN KRAMPNER BOOKS:

• John Krampner Books

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