Jeremy R. Lent was born in 1960 in London, England, where he grew up. He attended Emmanuel College, Cambridge University, where he attained his BA and MA in English Literature. He left England in 1981 to come to the United States, and married his wife, Molly, in 1983. He earned an MBA at the University of Chicago in 1986, and spent the next fifteen years raising his family and pursuing a career in business, founding an online financial services company called NextCard.
Requiem of the Human Soul is Jeremy's first novel.
