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jonah raskin raskin , may 2005 ; photograph by daniel new york city 180px january 3 , 1942 jonah_raskin_photo . jpg jonah raskin
 jonah raskin writer , professor
jonah raskin

jonah raskin -lrb- born january 3 , 1942 -rrb- is an american writer who left an east coast university teaching position to participate in the 1970s radical counterculture as a free-lance journalist , then returned to the academy in california in the 1980s to write probing studies of abbie hoffman and allen ginsberg and reviews of northern california writers whom he styled as `` natives , newcomers , exiles and fugitives . ''
beginning as a lecturer in english at sonoma state university in 1981 , he moved to chair of the communications studies department from 1988 to 2007 , while serving as a book reviewer for the `` san francisco chronicle '' and the `` santa rosa press-democrat '' .
he retired from his teaching position in 2011 .
