Jon Ferguson was born on October 26, 1949 in Oakland, California.
He has written twenty-three novels and a book on Nietzsche, Nietzsche au Petit Déjeuner” (“Nietzsche for Breakfast”). Cinco Puntos Press published his first American novel in 1998. Farley’s Jewel won Barnes & Noble’s “Discover Great New Writers of America” prize.
Ferguson is also known for his painting. Over the last thirty years he has had 20 painting exhibitions in and around Lausanne.
In 1979 he started the first basketball camp for kids in Switzerland with 32 children. Today the “Wilson Swiss All-Star Basketball Camp” is the largest such camp in Europe with over 750 participants each summer over a two week period.
He tries to get people to appreciate the amazing opportunity we have to be alive. As Camus said, “There is really only one real philosophical question: Why is there something and not nothing ? As for sports (he is the winningest coach in the history of Swiss basketball): “The first reason for the existence of sports is to have a beer after the game; the second reason is to have a beer with a friend after the game; the third reason has yet to be discovered.”