Jack Mayer is a pediatrician and a writer. He began practicing pediatrics in 1976 in Enosburg Falls, Vermont, a small town in eastern Franklin County on the Canadian border. His was the first pediatric practice in that half of the county. He was a country doctor there for ten years, often bartering medical care for eggs, firewood, and knitted afghans. From 1987 - 1991 Dr. Mayer was a National Cancer Institute Fellow at Columbia University School of Public Health in New York City, researching the molecular biology of childhood cancer. Most of his scientific writing was done during those four years. He was also an academic pediatrician at Columbia University's Presbyterian Medical Center. Dr. Mayer returned to Vermont in 1991 and established Rainbow Pediatrics in Middlebury, Vermont where he continues to practice primary care pediatrics. He is an Instructor in Pediatrics at the University of Vermont School of Medicine and an advisor for pre-medical students at Middlebury College. Throughout his career, Dr. Mayer has written short stories, poems, and essays about his years in pediatric practice and hiking The Long Trail in Vermont. He was a participant at Middlebury College's Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in 2003 and 2005 for fiction, and in 2008 for poetry. LIFE IN A JAR: The Irena Sendler Project is his first non-fiction book. He lives in Middlebury, Vermont.LIFE IN A JAR: The Irena Sendler Project has won several literary prizes:2014 Readers' Favorite Book Award - Gold Medal - Education2014 Benjamin Franklin Digital Award - Silver Honoree2014 Shelf Unbound Notable Book 2012 IndieReader Discovery Award2011 Kansas Notable Book Award2011 daVinci Eye Award - Eric Hoffer AwardTranslations:Polish, Chinese, Russian - 2013French - 2015YouTube book trailer (4:17): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bQAI0jKC7Q&feature=youtube_gdata_player