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This article is about the writer. For the character, see John Swartzwelder (character).

John Swartzwelder

Crew Information Gender: Male ♂ Job: Consultant Writer Producer Story editor Birth date: November 16, 1950 (1950-11-16) (age 74) Status: Inactive Number of episodes: 237 Seasons active: Seasons 1 - 15 First episode: "Bart the General" Most recent episode: "The Regina Monologues" Movie: The Simpsons Movie First album: Songs in the Key of Springfield Latest album: The Simpsons: Testify

John Swartzwelder (born November 16, 1950) is a writer for the The Simpsons. He is credited with writing the largest number of Simpsons episodes. John was one of several writers recruited to The Simpsons from the pages of George Meyer's Army Man magazine.

Beginning with the show's sixth season, Swartzwelder no longer attended rewrites with the rest of the staff, having been given special dispensation to send in his drafts from home and let the other writers revise them.

According to his longtime collaborators on The Simpsons, Al Jean and Mike Reiss, Swartzwelder is a huge fan of Preston Sturges films and loves "anything old-timey American." This vaguely defined aesthetic presents itself in many of the episodes he's written, in the form of wandering hobos, Prohibition-era speakeasies, carnies, 19th-century baseball players, aging Western movie stars, and Sicilian gangsters.

According to the DVD commentaries, he used to write episodes while sitting at a booth in his favorite restaurant "drinking copious amounts of coffee and smoking endless cigarettes" (Matt Groening). When the state of California passed an anti-smoking law, Swartzwelder bought a diner booth and installed it in his house, allowing him to smoke and write in peace.

Credits

Written by

Consultant

Story editor

Producer

Co-producer

For The Simpsons

• Album – Songs in the Key of Springfield
• Album – Go Simpsonic with The Simpsons
• Album – The Simpsons: Testify

Parody lyrics by

• Album – The Simpsons Movie: The Music ("Spider Pig")

See also

• Episodes written by John Swartzwelder

External links

• John Swartzwelder at the Internet Movie Database
• John Swartzwelder at Wikipedia
• JohnSwartzwelder.com