Jon Woronoff is an American author and editor and previously an interpreter and translator. His full name is Arthur Jon Woronoff, although he normally uses only Jon Woronoff. He was born in New York City in 1938, and lived there until the age of about twenty, after which he studied and worked in Europe for about fifteen years, Hong Kong and Japan for about ten years, again five years in the U.S. in Washington, D.C. and since 1991 in France. He studied at the Bronx High School of Science and New York University, where he received a B.A. in 1959. He obtained a diploma of... translator-interpreter at the Interpreter’s School of the University of Geneva in 1962. He then studied at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva until 1965, when he was granted a licence en sciences politique et economique.
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