Born in Los Angeles and raised in Southern California, Jerry Weeks was educated in public schools through high school and then attended USC where he received BA and MA degrees. During his career as an executive in local government and then in private business, he took creative writing classes at UCI and began writing short stories. "Mother, May I?" is his first full length novel. Based in Los Angeles during the last years of the Great Depression and first days of WW ll, many of the ideas for the events from this difficult time in US history are from stories repeated by his parents' and then re...