David Wong (writer)
| David Wong | |
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| Born | Jason Pargin January 10, 1975 Lawrenceville, Illinois |
| Occupation | Humorist, novelist |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Southern Illinois University |
| Period | Contemporary |
| Genre | Satire |
| Subject | pop culture, news media, Americana, science fiction |
| Notable works | John Dies at the End |
| Website | |
| johndiesattheend |
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Jason Pargin (born January 10, 1975), known by his pen name David Wong, is an American humor writer. He is the executive editor of humor website Cracked.com and has written three novels, John Dies at the End (2007), This Book Is Full of Spiders (2012) and Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits (2015).John Dies at the End was adapted into a film of the same name in 2012. The third novel in a "John Dies at the End" series, titled "What the Hell did I just Read?" was published in early 2017.
Wong was born in Lawrenceville, Illinois. He and fellow Internet writer John Cheese (real name Mack Leighty) went to high school together and met during an art class they shared. Wong then attended the Southern Illinois University (SIU) radio-television program, graduating in 1997. While at SIU, he was part of a TV show on Alt.news cable TV called Consumer Advocate. A number of episodes were produced.
He lived in Marion, Illinois until 2014, when he moved to Nashville.
In 1999 Wong started his own humor site, Pointless Waste of Time (PWOT), which would eventually be absorbed into Cracked.com.
While working as a copy editor at a law firm, he would spend his days copy editing insurance claims and nights posting humor articles on PWOT. Every Halloween on the site he wrote a new chapter of an online story that he published as a webserial. An estimated 70,000 people read the free online versions before they were removed in September 2008. Wong used the feedback from people reading each episode of the webserial to tweak what would eventually become the book, John Dies at the End.
Demand Media hired Wong to be the head editor for their revamped online magazine, Cracked.com, although Demand was not aware of Wong's book deal. As part of the deal, he merged PWOT into the Cracked forums. Wong has described a disconnection between the old Cracked print magazine and the humor site Cracked.com due to multiple relaunches and almost entirely new staff. As a child, he read Cracked magazine's biggest competitor, Mad magazine.
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