Jonathan Richards is an American author, journalist, actor, and cartoonist. He was born in Washington, DC, in 1941, and educated at

South Kent School South Kent School, a private all-boys boarding school in South Kent, Connecticut, United States, is located on a campus in western Litchfield County. It is sited on Spooner Hill east of Bull's Bridge, overlooking the former Housatonic Valley ...

and Brown University.

As author

''Nick & Jake'', written with his brother Tad Richards (

Arcade Publishing Arcade Publishing is an independent trade publishing company that started in 1988 in New York, USA. It publishes American and world fiction and nonfiction. The company was started and run by Richard Seaver and his wife Jeannette.Weber, Bruce (J ...

, 2012, is an

epistolary novel An epistolary novel is a novel written as a series of letters. The term is often extended to cover novels that intersperse documents of other kinds with the letters, most commonly diary entries and newspaper clippings, and sometimes considered ...

set in the

Joseph McCarthy Joseph Raymond McCarthy (November 14, 1908 – May 2, 1957) was an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957. Beginning in 1950, McCarthy became the most visi ...

era in 1953, and mixes characters drawn from life and from classic fiction. The Richards brothers’ previous novels include the three-volume ''Whitmarsh Chronicles'', a generational trilogy set against the background of the

American labor movement The labor history of the United States describes the history of organized labor, US labor law, and more general history of working people, in the United States. Beginning in the 1930s, unions became important allies of the Democratic Party. The ...

; and ''

Cherokee Bill Crawford Goldsby (February 8, 1876 – March 17, 1896) was a 19th-century American outlaw, known by the alias Cherokee Bill. Responsible for the murders of eight men (including his brother-in-law), he and his gang terrorized the Indian Territory f ...

'', historical fiction set in the

Indian Territory The Indian Territory and the Indian Territories are terms that generally described an evolving land area set aside by the United States Government for the relocation of Native Americans who held aboriginal title to their land as a sovereign ...

in the waning days of the

Old West The American frontier, also known as the Old West or the Wild West, encompasses the geography, history, folklore, and culture associated with the forward wave of American expansion in mainland North America that began with European colonial ...

. Solo novels include ''Tularosa'', a historical novel, and ''Santa Fe,'' a contemporary novel of greed and growth in the capital of New Mexico.

As cartoonist

His political cartoons are seen regularly on the website WhoWhatWhy Book illustration includes ''Cosmo'' by

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As film critic

He is a member of the

Online Film Critics Society The Online Film Critics Society (OFCS) is an international professional association of online film journalists, historians and scholars who publish their work on the World Wide Web. The organization was founded in January 1997 by Harvey S. Karten ...

.Online Film Critics' Society
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References

1941 births Living people Novelists from Washington, D.C. American cartoonists American film critics Online Film Critics Society South Kent School alumni 21st-century American novelists American male novelists 21st-century American male writers 21st-century American non-fiction writers American male non-fiction writers {{US-cartoonist-stub