About the Author

Jerry Benjamin grew up in Lynn, Massachusetts, during the 1940s and 1950s and had a somewhat unusual childhood, thanks mostly to his mother, who danced to her own beat.

At the age of fourteen, while still at public school, he started working various jobs and then went on to earn his bachelor's degree in pharmaceutical science from the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy in Boston.

Having learned everything he could working for others, Benjamin went on to become an enthusiastic entrepreneur, overcoming repeated obstacles on the road to realizing his version of the American dream.

He spent thirty-eight years married to his childhood sweetheart, and they are both extremely proud of their two sons.