William E. Jones is an artist, filmmaker, and writer who was born in Ohio and now lives in Los Angeles. He has made two feature length films, Massillon (1991) and Finished (1997) which won a Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award, the documentary Is It Really So Strange? (2004). His work has been the subject of retrospectives at Tate Modern and Anthology Film Archives, and has been included in the 1993 and 2008 Whitney Biennials. His writing has appeared in Artforum, Bidoun, Frieze and Little Joe. His book Imitation of Christ was named one of the best photo books of 2013 by Time magazine.
"Move over Maxwell Perkins, here's another editor who deserves to be more famous than you. Boyd McDonald may have been an alcoholic lunatic who masturbated chronically while encouraging readers to send in endless descriptions of their sex lives, but he remained pure in spirit." -- John Waters
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