Gordon S. Jackson is a South African-born educator and author.He received his undergraduate education in South Africa and his MA at Wheaton College, Illinois. He worked as a reporter and editor on a news magazine in Johannesburg before obtaining his PhD in mass communications at Indiana University. He then taught journalism at Whitworth University in Spokane, Washington, for 32 years before retiring in 2015.He is the author or compiler of fourteen books (twelve commercially published), including two satirical novels. He is married to another South African, who he says helps keep his accent honest.