Jonathan Shipley

Jonathan Shipley is a freelance writer living in Seattle. He’s written for the Los Angeles Times, Gather Journal, Uppercase, and many other publications.

The New York Public Library has animated the first book Frankenstein
author Mary Shelley ever worked on. It's a kid's story, published by
Shelley's anarchist philosopher dad William Godwin in 1808.
There is was. A first edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. It was in its original dust jacket. Pristine, it was.
Seattle, one of America's Most Literate Cities has been hard hit on the literary front of late.