JEFFERSON, Jon
(Jefferson Bass, a joint pseudonym)

PERSONAL:

Married.

ADDRESSES:

Home—TN.

CAREER:

Journalist, documentary filmmaker, and author. Writer and director of films for A&E Network, History Channel, and National Geographic Channel.

WRITINGS:

(And director) Biography of a Corpse (documentary film), National Geographic Channel, 2002.

(And director) Anatomy of a Corpse (documentary film), National Geographic Channel, 2002.

(With Bill Bass) Death's Acre: Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab the Body Farm Where the Dead Do Tell Tales, Putnam (New York, NY), 2003.

(With Bill Bass; under joint pseudonym Jefferson Bass) Carved in Bone: A Body Farm Novel, William Morrow (New York, NY), 2006.

(With Bill Bass; under joint pseudonym Jefferson Bass) Flesh and Bone: A Body Farm Novel, William Morrow (New York, NY), 2007.

Contributor of articles to the New York Times, Newsweek, USA Today, Popular Science and National Public Radio.

ADAPTATIONS:

Death's Acre was adapted for audio cassette, Simon & Schuster Audio, 2003.

SIDELIGHTS:

Jon Jefferson is a science writer and filmmaker whose work has appeared in major publications and on television. His two documentaries on the University of Tennessee's Anthropology Research Center (commonly called the "Body Farm"), Biography of a Corpse and Anatomy of a Corpse, have been aired several times on the National Geographic Channel. Collaborating with famed forensic anthropologist Bill Bass, Jefferson has authored the nonfiction Death's Acre: Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab the Body Farm Where the Dead Do Tell Tales, and the mystery novels Carved in Bone: A Body Farm Novel and Flesh and Bone: A Body Farm Novel. For more sidelights, see CA entry on Bill Bass.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Booklist, October 15, 2003, David Pitt, review of Death's Acre: Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab the Body Farm Where the Dead Do Tell Tales, p. 366.

Entertainment Weekly, December 5, 2003, Alynda Wheat, review of Death's Acre, p. 104.

Kirkus Reviews, January 15, 2006, review of Carved in Bone: A Body Farm Novel, p. 53.

Publishers Weekly, October 13, 2003, review of Death's Acre, p. 69; November 21, 2005, review of Carved in Bone, p. 26.

School Library Journal, March, 2004, Peggy Bercher, review of Death's Acre, p. 252.

Spectator, January 31, 2004, Theodore Dalrymple, "Pioneer in a Peculiar Science," review of Death's Acre, p. 54.

USA Today, February 28, 2006, Carol Memmott, review of Carved in Bone, p. D4.

ONLINE

AllReaders.com, http://www.allreaders.com/ (September 12, 2006), review of Death's Acre.

Bookreporter.com, http://www.bookreporter.com/ (September 12, 2006), Rachel Egelman, review of Carved in Bone.

CourtTV Crime Library,http://www.crimelibrary.com/ (September 12, 2006), Katherine Ramsland, "The Body Farm."

CrimeSpreeMag.com, http://www.crimespreemag.com/ (September 12, 2006), review of Carved in Bone.

Daily News-Record Online,http://www.drnonline.com/ (February 23, 2006), Lucy Bednar, "Too Much Fat and Not Enough Meat on This Bone," review of Carved in Bone.

Death's Acre Web site,http://www.deathsacre.com/ (September 12, 2006).

Houston Chronicle Online,http://www.houstonchronicle.com/ (February 3, 2006), Steve Weinberg, "Down on the Body Farm," review of Carved in Bone.

Jefferson Bass Home Page,http://www.jeffersonbass.com (September 14, 2006).

ORAU News,http://www.orau.org/ (July 21, 2005), "Dr. Bill Bass, Founder of UT's Body Farm, to Speak Tuesday Evening at Free, Public Lecture."

Smithsonian Resident Associates,http://residentassociates.org/ (February 23, 2006), Elizabeth A. Davis, "'Body Farm' Founder Tries Hand at Fiction."

Web Mystery Magazine,http://www.lifeloom.com/ (September 12, 2006), Katherine Ramsland, review of Death's Acre. *