Jerry Anderson was born in Minneapolis, but grew up in Phoenix in the desert Southwest. When he was six he watched TV episodes of the Masked Man and Tonto, but fantasized himself as the Lone Ranger. In high school in 1962 he saw the movie Dr No, and imagined becoming a spy like James Bond. By his late teens, just before college, he made a promise to himself that he would write the Great American novel, and be a writer the stature of Jack London or F. Scott Fitzgerald. Later in college he took the flight school course and romanticized about becoming a jet fighter pilot. But an unfortunate ROTC experience closed out any hope of a military career.
After college, with degrees in finance and economics, he returned to Minneapolis where he had worked summer construction jobs and went to work for a large Midwestern insurance company. Realizing rather quickly that insurance was not the rode to his horizon, he quit and took a job selling mutual funds and insurance at which he failed rather spectacularly.
In his early twenties still, he then picked up on his dream to write the Great American novel and went back to work in construction, working summers, collecting unemployment and happily writing in the winter. After five years of hard work, and soaring dreams of becoming a famous author, a month before Elvis died, he finished his first novel Hero’s Welcome, the story of a Vietnam vet’s troubled homecoming from the war. The book was so bad that after one reading he put it away in a box—just as Steinbeck had done with three of his novels—and never showed it to anyone.
Then he started trading commodities for his own account, made some money in the surging gold market in the late ’70s, and by the mid ’80s was a stockbroker working in a bank. He left the bank for a brief stint at Paine Webber in St. Paul, but in late 89′ went to the Grain Exchange in Minneapolis to start his own commodity business which he operated until late 2017.
Using his experience with commodities for background, he wrote his romance novel: The Money Trader, which was published on line in 2013. That was followed by his as yet unpublished novel: The Pagan And The Prophet, the story of Jesus and Mary after the crucifixion. His latest novel is The Tsar’s Puppet is now serialized the story of the coming civil war in America, and a bold CIA plot to assassinate an authoritarian, rogue U.S. president and his Russian puppet master.