Jerome Mark Antil is the seventh child of a seventh son of a seventh son. Born at sunrise it's been told by Mary Margaret Belle Antil and Michael C. Antil Sr. that he was the first of eight siblings to stay awake all day and sleep through the night from the moment he was born.

"A boy that alert just has to be a writer," his mother quipped.

A full Irish mother, a strong woman nurtured Jerome Mark with strong values.  His father, a second generation Acadian (formerly D'anquetil) was a storyteller parexcellance. As a boy, young Jerry would ride with his dad all throughout central and northern New York visiting grocers and U.S. Army bases; baseball parks and bread lines as the man sold his bread, hot dog buns, pies and cakes. His dad was 'Big Mike' and young Jerry loved listening to his timeless stories and tall tales - stopping at fishing holes along the way. All day rides, grand stories and the entire world at War to young Jerome Mark Antil a Buick was his steamboat  and adventures with his dad, his Mississippi."

Jerome Mark Antil's first novels were award winning heartfelt fare of family and friendship - light-hearted nostalgia from the 1940s and 1950s. He revels in his intensive research, capturing in good detail what it was like being a kid living in a world at War and then in its shadows. When the War ended, Jerome Mark Antil grew up in Delphi Falls, (at the falls) which provided the setting for The Pompey Hollow Book Club series.  His boyhood homestead, Delphi Falls is now a state/county park in New York State, opened to the public. 
Antil' early writing has been compared to henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Mark Twain and Ernest Hemingway.

As an adult Jerry first worked as a proof reader and printer's liaison, he later wrote and produced industrial sales and training films. An accomplished writer for public relations and advertising agencies, he would become Chief Marketing Officer for several prominent U.S. companies.
Jerry's favorite authors are: (John Steinbeck) "Steinbeck could peer through a peephole into a person's soul." (Ernest Hemingway) "Papa Hemingway could establish character, plot, and hook in a single sentence." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) "His Sherlock would keep me eager for the next clue and its accompanying anecdote as for the crime's solution." (Mark Twain) "Samuel Langhorne Clements was an irreverent observer of human foibles who made more money with his lectures than with early on book sales. His stand up was thought provoking, caustic - he was the  Howard Stern (candor without the filth) of the 19th century."

A next generation genre for Jerome Mark Antil - the study of his Acadian culture and writing adult literature including suspense and mystery.