John Swartzwelder

John Joseph Swartzwelder, Jr. (born February 8, 1949) is an American comedy writer and novelist, best known for his work on the animated television series The Simpsons. Born in Seattle, Washington, Swartzwelder began his career working in advertising. He was later hired to work on comedy series Saturday Night Live in the mid-1980s as a writer. He later contributed to fellow writer George Meyers short-lived Army Man magazine, which led him to join the original writing team of The Simpsons, beginning in 1989.He worked on The Simpsons for fourteen years as a writer and producer, later contributing to the programs 2007 film adaption. He is credited with writing the largest number of Simpsons episodes (59 full episodes, with contributions to several others) by a large margin. After his retirement from the show, he began a career as a writer of self-published absurdist novels. He has written over eleven novels, the most recent of which, The Animal Report, was published in 2014.Swartzwelder is revered among comedy fans; his colleagues have called him among the best comedy writers. He is famously averse to press.

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