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Brian jay jones born august 1, 1967 is an american biographer, primarily of american pop. Drawing on hundreds of hours of new interviews with henson s family, friends, and closest collaborators, as well as unprecedented access to private family and company archives, brian jay jones explores the creation of the muppets, henson s contributions to sesame street and saturday night live, and his nearly tenyear campaign to bring the. What links here related changes upload file special pages permanent link page information wikidata item cite this page. For the very first time, the henson archive has been opened to an independent biographer, giving brian jay jones unprecedented access to private papers.
The biography by brian jay jones suggests that the word may come from grackle, another name for blackbird. An interview with the author of the jim henson biography, brian jay jones. In this mymcmedia extra, biographer brian jay jones talks about his new bestselling book, jim henson. For the first time evera comprehensive biography of one of the twent.
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