Jason Keith Pargin is an American humor writer and novelist who formerly wrote under the name David Wong.
15 Facts About Jason Pargin
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Jason Pargin is the former executive editor of humor website Cracked.
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Alongside John Dies at the End and its three sequels, Jason Pargin has authored three books in the Zoey Ashe series and one standalone novel, I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom.
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Jason Keith Pargin was born in Lawrenceville, Illinois, on January 10,1975.
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Jason Pargin then attended the Southern Illinois University radio-television program, graduating in 1997.
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In 1999, Jason Pargin started the humor site Pointless Waste of Time, which would eventually be absorbed into Cracked.
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Jason Pargin used the feedback from people reading each episode of the webserial to tweak what would eventually become the book, John Dies at the End.
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Demand Media hired Jason Pargin to be the head editor for their revamped online magazine, Cracked.
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Jason Pargin has described a disconnection between the old Cracked print magazine and the humor site Cracked.
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Jason Pargin referred to Dunbar's number again in his second novel, This Book Is Full of Spiders.
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When Jason Pargin started PWOT, he took on the pseudonym of David Wong to keep his real and online lives separate.
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In late 2020, Jason Pargin announced that he was retiring the pseudonym, with future editions of his works being published under his real name instead.
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Jason Pargin published the first book of the Zoey Ashe series in 2015, Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits.
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Jason Pargin published his first standalone novel in 2024, I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom.
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Jason Pargin lived in Marion, Illinois, until 2014, when he moved to Nashville.