John Ned Mendelsohn (born in Washington, D.C.) is an American writer, journalist, musician and graphic designer. 　　In 1984, Mendelsohn's biography of The Kinks, Kinks Kronikles, was published. In this timeframe between stints with Rolling Stone, Mendelsohn contributed to Creem in the mid-1980s and also wrote later in his career for Playboy, Wired and Mojo. Mendelsohn worked in graphic design and website design for several years in the late 1990s through mid-2000s (decade). 　　In 2002, he relocated to the United Kingdom to reside there with his English second wife Claire, during which he composed and produced his own solo album, Sex With Twinge, and Mistress Chloe's much-praised Like a Moth to Its Flame. Over the course of the next half-decade, he composed and produced albums for Sadie Sings and Do Re Mi Fa (Cough), and wrote three published books (Dominatrix: The Making of Mistress Chloe, Waiting for Kate Bush, and Gigantic: The Pixies and Frank Black) and a great deal of unpublished fiction, not to mention several teleplays. He directed and starred in two scripted sketch comedy revues, The Ministry of Humour and Clear & Present Rangers. 　　Mendelsohn departed the UK late in 2007, and spent 10 months in the Midwest before buying a home in New York's Hudson Valley, where, between November 2008 and November 2009, he composed, performed, and recorded his second solo album, Sorry We're Open, released in February 2010. Now living back in London after two years in LA, Mendelsohn regularly blogs on His Web journal, "For All in Tents and Porpoises", in which he writes his thoughts on various elements of pop culture, personal anecdotes including frank accounts of his lifelong struggles with low self-esteem and depression, and satirical political pieces in which he purports to have embraced conservatism and the policies of Sarah Palin.