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Date of Birth
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1941
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Place of Birth
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San Francisco
(California, United States of America, San Francisco Bay Area, San Francisco Peninsula, Area code 415)
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Nationality
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United States of America
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Also know as
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William Ron Jones, Buddha, וילי×× ×¨×•×Ÿ ×’'×•× ×¡, בודהה
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Profession
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Poet, Writer, Teacher, Actor
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Ron Jones is an American writer, teacher in Palo Alto, California, and San Francisco, California and storyteller. He is internationally known for the adaptation of the classroom experience he started, called The Third Wave. In 1981, The Third Wave was made into a TV film The Wave, including a famous novelization by Todd Strasser, and a theatrical film in 2008, for which he won the Emmy and Peabody Awards. His books The Acorn People and B-Ball have also been made into TV dramas. Jones lives in San Francisco, California where he performs regularly as a storyteller.
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