Jack Clinton was born in Price, Utah. Then, his mother moved the family to the Suburbs of New Haven, Connecticut. Jack was not on a college track in high school, and left the East Coast after graduating for the mountains of Wyoming. Jack came of age in Wyoming in the company of ski bums, climbing bums, mountain guides, river guides, itinerate hippies, rednecks, and crazy people. Eventually, he attended the University of Wyoming, earning a BA in English and a Masters in Spanish. He began teaching shortly after and lived in Spain twice. The itch to write was always there, but it wasn't until he was married and settled with a child that he concluded he could actually do it. Clovis is his first Novel.