Tharon Giddens

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• Books: Just finished John Updike's Toward The End of Time. Solid prose, but not Updike's best., Currently reading Terry Pratchett's Unseen Academicals.
• Food: Nature's most perfect food is lasagna.
• Music: Couldn't do without the Kinks; Guilty pleasure: Blue Oyster Cult (first three albums).

• Relationship Status: Married
• Children: Three
• Location: Augusta, Ga.
• Education: ABJ, the University of Georgia
• Profession: Journalist
• Birthday: Jan. 19

Chronicle employee since 1992, with stints as assistant features editor and features editor; previously worked at The Gwinnett Daily News in suburban Atlanta, The Anderson Independent-Mail in Anderson, S.C., and The Rome News Tribune, Rome Ga.