Jason Roberts Biography
Jason Roberts is a well-known American author of fiction and narrative nonfiction. He used to be a journalist and a technologist. He began his career at Apple Computer as a software developer before leaving to write a series of books on both hardware and software themes, and subsequently to work as a technology reporter for the Village Voice.
Jason Roberts Age
Jason was born on 5 February 1974, in Southern California, California, United States of America. He is 49 years old as of February 2023.
Jason Roberts Parents
He was born and raised in Southern California, He is the son of Anthony K. Roberts, and Gloria Neil. He has one sibling Moana Roberts.
Jason Roberts Partner- Wife
Jason is happily married to his wife Julia Scott.
Jason Roberts Career
He began his career at Apple Computer as a software developer before leaving to write a series of books on both hardware and software themes, and subsequently to work as a technology reporter for the Village Voice. Roberts, an early Internet proponent, founded the Learn2 Corporation in 1996, one of the first online venues for non-academic teaching. The company went public on the NASDAQ exchange in 1999 and has since been acquired by Oracle Corporation. Roberts retired from administration and returned to writing in 2000, shortly after Yahoo! named Learn2 “One of the Ten Most Important Websites of the 20th Century”
In 2004, Roberts was the first recipient of Michael Chabon’s Van Zorn Prize for finest short fiction in the Edgar Allan Poe genre. A Sense of the World, Roberts’ first biography of the blind traveller James Holman (1786-1857), was a national bestseller in 2006, a nominee for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and a longlisting for the Guardian First Book Award. The book was also designated a “Best Book of the Year” by the Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Kirkus Reviews, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and Rocky Mountain News. In 2018, Roberts revealed that Random House has acquired his next book, Every Living Thing.
Roberts’ first five books covered technical subjects like object-oriented programming. He is the editor of The Learn2 Guide, as well as four titles in the best-selling 642 Books series, which contain compilations of creative writing materials. Roberts currently resides in Oakland, California. He is on the board of the Community of Writers and is a regular member of its teaching staff.
Jason Roberts Net Worth
Roberts has an estimated net worth of 1 million dollars.