Dietz, Jon

Jon Dietz graduated from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, in 1972, with a degree in political science. His main passion was history.

He worked for fifteen years at the "Sarasota Herald-Tribune" as a writer and an editor. He specialized in crime and military history. He covered the Ted Bundy trial for a magazine in Cophenhagen.

During the early 1980s Dietz collaborated with the late George T. Eggleston, former Editor-in-Chief at "Readers Digest."

In 1985 Dietz was one of only 21 Americans to receive a grant from the Delegation of the Commission of European Communities, a branch of