Jack Fitzgerald was raised in Mississippi and comes from a family of writers, poets and historians. He is the author of many plays and screenplays. He is also an actor, linguist and educator. He attended Mississippi State University, Middlebury College, Cambridge University,  the Sorbonne and the University of Madrid. On TV he was seen in the series ARCHIE BUNKER'S PLACE and he has appeared in many television commercials. He has acted in films and on stage in France, Mexico, Cuba and the USA and has written screenplays in both Paris and Hollywood. He resided for nine years in Paris where he established the only permanent English language theater, The Paris English Teatre. It was there many of his plays were first produced. He sees life as a "serious circus" and in his writing combines the deadly serious with the comic.