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Pediatrician and author Jack Mayer at a book talk at Siena College in 2012.

Jack Mayer

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Jack Mayer is a Vermont writer and pediatrician. From 1976 - 1986 he was a country doctor on the Canadian border bartering medical care for eggs, firewood, and knitted afghans. Dr. Mayer established Rainbow Pediatrics in Middlebury, Vermont in 1991 where he continues to practice primary care pediatrics. He was a participant at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference in 2003 and 2005 (fiction) and 2008 (poetry). His first non-fiction book is Life In A Jar: The Irena Sendler Project.  His latest novel, Before The Court Of Heaven, is inspired by the history of how Germany’s Weimar democracy became the Third Reich.  www.jackmayer.net

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