Jack Henderson grew up in the southwest corner of Chicago before moving to the nearby suburb of Burbank, Illinois. At age 14, he started running and participated in track and cross country throughout his high school and college years. After college, he supported his career as a folk singer and entertainer by tending bar, painting houses, making donuts, working in factories, and other assorted activities. At various times during those years as a singer, he lived in Austin, Texas, Boulder, Colorado, and Los Angeles, California. He returned to school in the 1980s, earning a master's degree, then a Ph.D. in U.S. History from the University of Florida.He finally got his first "real" job teaching and coaching at a private girls' high school in Nashville, Tennessee. He began writing during summer vacations. The Forest Primeval is his first novel. He lives with his wife and pursues his writing career in the idyllic town of River Falls, Wisconsin.
