ABOUT JERRY

I earned my bachelor's degree at the University of Texas, Austin, with a major in playwriting. I've identified myself as a writer all my life, even in childhood, but had become involved in theater during high school. After graduating from college in 1972, I moved to New York City and spent the next eighteen years writing plays, several of which were produced off Broadway, off off Broadway, and in regional, summer stock and university venues. One play was also adapted for television. Meanwhile, I sometimes wrote free lance articles for magazines, evaluated manuscripts for a division of Simon & Schuster, and spent about five years at the American Association of Advertising Agencies doing technical writing and speech writing among other things. My wife and I also had two children near the end of that period.