Jon Evans (born April 11, 1973[1]) is a Canadian novelist, journalist, adventure traveler, and software engineer.[2][3]

Early life

Born to an expatriate Rhodesian father and Canadian mother, Evans grew up in Waterloo, Ontario and graduated from the University of Waterloo.[4] He has a degree in electrical engineering and over 10 years of experience working as a software engineer.[5] He lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife, who is an attorney.[6][7]

Career

Evans won the 2005 Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel from the Crime Writers of Canada for his book Dark Places and has been reviewed in such publications as The Economist[8] and The Washington Post.[9] His graphic novel The Executor was named one of the ten best of 2010 by Comic Book Resources,[10] and his novel Beasts of New York won a 2011 ForeWord Book of the Year Awards medal.[11]

Evans has also written for magazines such as New Scientist, The Times of India, The Walrus, and Wired, and the newspapers The Globe and Mail and The Guardian, and he writes a weekly column for TechCrunch.[12][13] Now based in San Francisco, California, he frequently travels the world to research the locations of his novels.[14][15]

Bibliography

Much of Evans' work is released under a Creative Commons license and can be downloaded for free.[16]

Novels

(All can be downloaded at Feedbooks.com)

• Dark Places (UK title: Trail of the Dead). 2004.
• Blood Price. 2005.
• Invisible Armies. 2006.
• The Night of Knives. 2007.
• Beasts of New York. 2011.
• Swarm. 2012.
• Exadelic, 2023.[17]

Graphic novels

• The Executor (illustrated by Andrea Mutti). Vertigo Comics. 2010.[18]
• "The Coder". Engineering.com. 2010. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

Travel writing

• No Fixed Address. 2015.[19]

Journalism

• "Blood, Bullets, Bombs and Bandwidth". Slashdot. July 24, 2003.
• "Wiring the War Zone". Wired. Vol. 13, no. 9. September 2005.
• "In the Shadow of Doom". The Walrus. 2006.
• "Free Delivery: Birth in Haiti". The Walrus. 2008.
• "Better Dying Through Chemistry". The Walrus. October 23, 2008.
• "Can A Video Game Make You Cry?". Maisonneuve. January 2009.
• "Burning With Desire". The Walrus. September 13, 2010.
• "This Is Where The Magic Happens". TechCrunch. June 7, 2011.
• "Save Helpless Faraway Africans From The Comfort Of Your Armchair!". TechCrunch. March 10, 2013.
• "Such DFW. Very Orwell. So Doge. Wow". TechCrunch. January 11, 2014.

See also

• List of University of Waterloo people

References

External links

• Official website