Jonathan M. Sweet, born September 13, 1975, in Chicago, is an American horror author.
His screen name comes from a Pinky and the Brain short, "Puppet Rulers", in which Brain, posing as a kiddie-show host, called himself, "The Iconoclast, an unconventional eccentric who marches to the beat of a different drummer".

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A graduate of Arkansas State University, he was a psychology and English major, a member of the honor society Pi Gamma Mu, and a staffer for The Herald.

Sweet currently lives in the Missouri Bootheel with his family, the pastoral setting which inspires his work.