He was born the seventh child of a seventh son of a seventh son. Jerome Mark Antil - A noted marketing innovator, Antil originally told his story, The Long Stem is in the Lobby, of his early life as a writer with the pathos and humor that earned a book of the Year Finalist nod. Antil has been called a 'greatest generation's', Mark Twain - his namesake; a 'write what you know' Hemingway lookalike; and a sensitive and observant, Longfellow. Best known for his award-winning historical fiction novels, The Pompey Hollow Book Club series about he and his friends growing up in the shadows of WWII. Antil appears in different genres but always celebrating his storytelling picked up from an incredible Arcadian father and important values he learned from strong women (his mother and two sisters) who influenced his youth. It has been said of Antil's reality in writing, that he writes like Norman Rockwell paints.
