Jefferson Bass

Jefferson Bass is a pseudonym used by the writing collaboration of Jon Jefferson and Dr. William M. "Bill" Bass. Together they have written a number of novels in the Body Farm series. Jon Jefferson (born 13 November 1955) is an American author and television documentary maker. William Marvin Bass III (born August 30, 1928) is an American forensic anthropologist, best known for his research on human osteology and human decomposition. He founded the University of Tennessee's Anthropology Research Facility popularly known as "the Body Farm" in 1972.