The Grapevine Art & Soul Salon

Jonathan Knott

Jonathan Knott, Host of The Grapevine's Tracking History column, also writes reviews and features. As Associate Editor, he reads material submitted to The Grapevine by other contributing writers and prospective writers. He participates in selection and editing of new pieces. Many of the photographs on the site were taken by Jonathan, whose studies include history, biology, psychology, film, and creative writing. He also graduated from Georgia Film School and took Warner Herzog's Film Master Class online.

Jonathan has a lifelong interest in writing about history and enjoys traveling to historically interesting places, the most recent of which was a trip to Las Vegas, Nevada, that yielded three pieces for Issue 20 of The Grapevine. In December 2015 he went to Dublin, Ireland's UNESCO city of literature, for a writers conference and long looks at the historically vibrant landscape. He is a member of the Atlanta Writers Club where, in 2019, he entered his "Sonnet to Soap and Wax" into the Natasha Tretheway prize for poetry competition and became one of three finalists. Submitting the same poem to Winning Writers' Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest, he emerged as one of 27 finalists out of the 5,539 poets who entered.

Jonathan's study partners are, he says, distant descendants of wolves that lie on his couch and accept donations of snacks and tummy rubs in exchange for their opinions on ancient battle tactics and the origins of line-sight film editing.

LINKS to archived articles by Jonathan Knott in The Grapevine.

Jonathan Knott and Barbara Knott: In Full Swing

Dog Heroics: Sgt. Stubby in WWI and in Film Now

Valley of Fire and The Wild Side of Cities: Las Vegas

Ocean Tracking at the National Civil War Naval Museum in Columbus, Georgia

River Watching the Mighty Boinne

Jonathan Knott: Harry Crews Redefines Freedom of Speech in Fiction

Poem: Throwing the Runner Out

The Unusual Pleasures of Oakland Cemetery

Review: Center for Puppetry Arts, Great Expectations

Tracking History: A Fresh Look at General Sherman

Tracking History: Sacred Soil

Tracking History: The Life of Objects

Tracking History: Atlanta History Center Visualizes the Civil War a Century and a Half Later

Tracking History: Horses and History

Tracking History: The Holy Game of Poker

Film Review: Looking at the Old West with Robert Altman in McCabe and Mrs. Miller, 1971

Tracking History: Is the Past Really Past?

Tracking History: Battle of Britain

Tracking History: A Short Hike

Tracking History: Journey to Andersonville

Thoughts and Thrills in Pan's Labyrinth

Interview with Abraham Grabia

Book Review: A Cry of Angels by Jeff Fields

Book Review: The Year the Music Changed by Diane Thomas

Film Review: Walk the Line (scroll down page)

Film Review: Master and Commander

CONTACT JONATHAN: jknott@grapevineartandsoulsalon.com.


Copyright 2019, Barbara Knott. All Rights Reserved.