From the beginning, Jerome Winslow was gifted with wanderlust and a seemingly insatiable curiosity, so he has moved often, travelled extensively, and he has had many different occupations. He bases his novels on these first-hand experiences.

The Towers of Tarragon’s central character, Jean-Luc Long, is an independent underwater filmmaker, and he also works in a bookstore and a movie theater. Jerome has done all three. And the book is set in the Caribbean islands where Jerome has lived and dived extensively as a SCUBA diving instructor and dive guide.

He has studied numerous subjects at several different universities including Cinema Studies at New York University and Oceanography at the University of Michigan, and he has a PhD in Global Ecology and Environmental Science from the University of Wyoming. After obtaining his PhD, he worked as a graduate fellow at the University of Montana, and he later became a Professor at Texas Tech University.

After leaving Texas Tech, he first devoted himself to making independent films, most of them underwater and concentrating on environmental issues, but after a back injury sidelined him from diving in 2017, he has dedicated himself to writing novels.