Jerry Whitt was born on a small farm in San Saba County in heart of the Texas Hill Country. He did all the things that country boys do: driving tractors, riding horses, working cattle, harvesting pecans, hunting, fishing, and so on. After graduating from San Saba High School, he moved to Austin, Texas. There he was employed by the Criminal Records Divsion of the Department of Public Safety working with fingerprints and fingerprint classification. Three years later Jerry moved to Wichita Falls, Texas to attend Midwestern State University (then Midwestern University). He worked part-time for the Wichita Falls Police Deptartment as a fingerprint expert and crime scene photographer. Today that field is commonly known as CSI.

He graduated from Midwestern with a BS in Biology and shortly thereafter married Texas native Sandra Hager. He also went on active military duty as an Army Lieutenant assigned to Germany, spending three years and leaving active duty as a Captain. Jerry continued service in the Army Reserves, retiring as a Lieutenant Colonel.

In civilian life, he returned to college completing a MS in Biology and a MA in English, both from Midwestern. Eventually he completed a Doctorate from the University of North Texas. He and Sandra added to their family with two sons and a daughter. Family life now includes extended families with the addition of eight grandchildren.

The majority of Jerry's professional carrer was spent in the classroom, teaching English and Biology at Rider High School in Wichita Falls and Biology at Vernon Regional Junior College (now Vernon College). He was later appointed Dean of the Wichita Falls Center of Vernon College and is now retired from education and living in Vernon, Texas.

His pastimes over the years have included fly fishing, bowhunting, camping, backpacking, photography, and of course, writing. He can still be found with a camera in his hand to capture the beauty of the surrounding wildlife. These days, he and Sandra enjoy traveling throughout the western United States, with a particular love of the mountains and the enviornment. As a member of the Sierra Club, the Union of Concerned Scientists, and the Wilderness Society, he works to include ecology whenever applicable in his novels.

Through his writing and photography, Jerry Whitt strives to preserve the past that is gradually being overtaken by modernization. He believes that we should never forget where we came from.