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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. His historical fiction BEFORE THE COURT OF HEAVEN (2015) based on a true story of the redemption of a young fascist assassin, is inspired by the history of how Germany's Weimar democracy became the Third Reich - a cautionary tale, a thriller, and a tender love story.
Dr. Mayer's love of hiking and of wilderness has inspired his new book, POEMS FROM THE WILDERNESS (Proverse, 2020), poems composed while hiking alone on Vermont's wilderness trails - The Long Trail and The Appalachian Trail. Celebrations of wilderness and contemplations of physics, spirit, and music inspired by the unique experience of being alone in the wild.
He lives in Middlebury, Vermont.
BOOK AWARDS:
LIFE IN A JAR: The Irena Sendler Project
2015 Mom's Choice Award - Gold Medal - Young Adult
2015 First Horizon Award - Eric Hoffer Award
2014 Readers' Favorite Book Award - Gold Medal - Education
2014 Benjamin Franklin Digital Award - Silver Honoree
2014 Shelf Unbound Notable Book
2012 IndieReader Discovery Award
2011 Kansas Notable Book Award
2011 daVinci Eye Award - Eric Hoffer Award
Translations:
Polish, Chinese, Russian - 2013
Mongolian - 2019
Sri Lanka - pending
YouTube book trailer (4:17):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bQAI0jKC7Q&feature=youtube_gdata_player
BEFORE THE COURT OF HEAVEN:
2018 Finalist – Grand Prize (Eric Hoffer Award) – Fiction
2017 Independent Press Award – Winner – Historical Fiction
2017 Independent Press Award – Winner – General Fiction
2016 IndieReader Discovery Award – 1st Place - Fiction
2015 Nautilus Book Award Winner – Fiction – Silver medal
2016 Readers’ Favorite Book Award – Gold Medal – Fiction – Social Issues
2016 Finalist – Grand Prize (Eric Hoffer Award) – Fiction
2016 Honorable Mention (Eric Hoffer Award) – Commercial Fiction
2016 Finalist - First Horizon Award (Eric Hoffer Award) – Fiction
2015 Foreword Reviews INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award Finalist – Historical Fiction
2015 Mom’s Choice Award - Gold Medal – Historical Fiction
2015 Pinnacle Book Achievement Award - Best Novel Fall 2015
2015 Beverly Hills Book Awards – Finalist – “Faction” - fiction based on true stories.
2016 Editor’s Choice Award - Top Shelf Magazine
A Best Indie Book of 2015 – IndieReader (5-stars)
2015 - Shelf Unbound – Notable Indie – 2015 Best Indie Books
2016 - Shelf Unbound - Notable Indie - 2016 Best Indie Books
YouTube book trailer: (1:31):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDCug9v6Y3g
Vermont Public Radio interview:
https://www.vpr.org/post/middlebury-author-his-mission-share-burdens-holocaust#stream/0
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