A native New Yorker and Floridian, Mr. Jacobs spent the major part of his career as the owner of a famous apparel company. Later, as a consultant to a fortune 500 company he continued his business activities within the Asian countries he writes about. The characters in The President are caricatures of people he knew. The Author is a professor at Berkeley College New York, a lecturer at Florida Atlantic University, and conducts an adult writing class at the University of Miami.