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Charles Elgin Alverson (October 13, 1935 - Los Angeles, California) is a novelist, editor and screenwriter who sometimes used the byline Chuck Alverson. He co-scripted the film Jabberwocky (1977) with director Terry Gilliam.

Growing up in Los Angeles County, he graduated in 1953 from high school in Redondo Beach. After service in the 11th and 82nd Airborne divisions of the U.S. Army, he graduated from San Francisco State College (English, 1960) and Columbia University (Journalism, 1963).

In the early 1960s Alverson was an assistant editor (under Harvey Kurtzman) of Help! and then a reporter for The Wall Street Journal. During a break from the WSJ in 1967, he was a "square" (or non-addicted) resident of the anti-drug cult Synanon in Ocean Beach, California, for six months. After moving to Britain in 1969, he wrote for Rolling Stone and British newspapers. In 1980, Alverson was managing editor of the British environmentalist magazine Vole, financed by Terry Jones of Monty Python. He was also founding editor of Insight (1981) and GIS Europe (1992).

After living in Radnorshire, mid-Wales from 1970 to 1975, Alverson moved to Cambridge, England, where he was active in rabble-rousing activities. He also was the moving force behind a month-long vigil in protest of the United States’s bombing of Iraq in 1990 and took part in resistance to Margaret Thatcher’s poll tax. He was arrested twice but never indicted. He worked briefly in Japan.

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