Ron Jones is an American writer

Writer

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, and teacher in Palo Alto, California

Palo Alto, California

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, and San Francisco, California

San Francisco, California

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. He started The Third Wave

The Third Wave

The Third Wave was an experiment to demonstrate that even democratic societies are not immune to the appeal of fascism. It was undertaken by history teacher Ron Jones with sophomore high school students attending his "Contemporary World" history class as part of a study of Nazi Germany...

. It was the inspiration for The Wave

The Wave (book)

The Wave is a 1981 young adult novel by Todd Strasser under the pen name Morton Rhue. It is a novelization of a teleplay by Johnny Dawkins for the movie The Wave, a fictionalized account of the "Third Wave" teaching experiment by Ron Jones that took place in a Cubberley High School history class in...

, a famous book by Todd Strasser, and the movie

The Wave (2008 film)

The Wave is a 2008 German film directed by Dennis Gansel and starring Jürgen Vogel, Max Riemelt, Jennifer Ulrich, Jacob Matschenz and Frederick Lau. It is based on the book The Wave which was inspired by the social experiment The Third Wave. The film was produced by Christian Becker for Rat Pack...

 based on the book.

Life

He was raised on 46th Avenue in the Sunset District

Sunset District, San Francisco, California

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 during the 1940s and 50s.
He has spent the past 30 years working with people with mental disabilities. Jones says that he was refused tenure at Cubberley High School because of his anti-war activities.

He lives in the Haight Ashbury of San Francisco, with his wife Deanna. He also wrote the story entitled The Acorn People. It is a story of Jones experience as a camp counselor.

Awards

• Christian Book of the Year for The Acorn People
• Pulitzer nominatation for Kids Called Crazy
• 1985 American Book Award
  American Book Award
  The American Book Award was established in 1978 by the Before Columbus Foundation. It seeks to recognize outstanding literary achievement by contemporary American authors, without restriction to race, sex, ethnic background, or genre...
  
  for Say Ray,
• When God Winked and Fellini Grinned a self published book was recently recommended by Oprah Winfrey on her show about autism.

Teleplays

• The Acorn People Charles Joffe producer, starring Cloris Leachman, LeVar Burton, Ted Bessell
• The Wave Producer-Norman Lear
• One Special Victory Starring John Larroquette

External links

• Ron Jones's website
• The Cubberley Student Newspaper (the Catamount) did an interview with Ron Jones from 1969 after he left Cubberley.
• Article about a new German film based on The Wave
• Ron Jones' account of The Wave
• "Ron Jones (III)", IMDb
• The Wave Home Third Wave info website: story history, FAQ, links, etc. by Jones' original Wave students