Philip Jett grew up in a town in northwest Tennessee boasting fewer than 300 residents. His father was a television repairman in the days of transistors and vacuum tubes and his mother a homemaker. As his high school’s valedictorian and following his father’s early death, Jett decided that the farm or the factory was not for him so he set out in search of a higher education. Eight years later, he was living in Manhattan, where, to his mother’s delight, he attended NYU School of Law with John F. Kennedy, Jr. and graduated with honors and a master of laws degree.

When family and other commitments necessitated his return to Tennessee, Jett joined what at that time was the state’s largest law firm. As a corporate and tax attorney, Jett represented multinational corporations, CEOs, and celebrities from the music, television, and sports industries. He made court appearances, drafted federal tax legislation, lobbied Congress, wrote legal works that garnered citations as authority on various subjects, and spoke on numerous legal topics at conferences and seminars. Jett didn’t realize it, but he was honing many of the skills that make a good writer – investigative research, analytical reasoning, resourcefulness, determination, vision, and creativeness.

After twenty years of long hours with little time for family and friends, and with his energy and enthusiasm waning, Jett decided it was time to stop chasing the billable hour and retire from the practice of law. Without the demands and stresses of a legal practice, Jett discovered a new, more flexible life, filled with coaching his sons’ baseball and football teams, volunteering for children’s causes, and pursuing his new love—writing. With an idea and an outline, he found that writing stories was much more enjoyable than drafting the lengthy and tedious contracts, trusts, briefs, and tax appeals that he often considered dull and dreary.

Not long afterward, Jett wrote his first narrative nonfiction book, The Death of an Heir: Adolph Coors III and the Murder That Rocked an American Brewing Dynasty, based on untold story of the 1960 kidnapping and murder of Coors Brewing Company CEO and Chairman, Adolph Coors III. Published by St. Martin’s Press, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing, The Death of an Heir was called one of the best true-crime stories of the year by The New York Times.

Jett then signed a contract with John Hunt Publishing, Ltd., a respected publisher in Great Britain, to publish his nonfiction book about the kidnapping and murder of the president of Exxon Company, International. He titled it Taking Mr. Exxon: The Kidnapping of an Oil Giant’s President. It was released on May 1, 2021. It's a chilling, edge-of-your-seat, thriller that you will not want to put down.

He has completed his third work, Stranded in the Sky—The Untold Story of Pan Am Luxury Airliners Trapped on the Day of Infamy, a historical nonfiction story never before written that Turner Publishing Company released on May 16, 2023. Jett premiered the book before a large crowd on Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay.

He is now enjoying finishing up his fourth and fifth books that stare back at him on his desktop screen.

When he’s not researching and writing books, Jett participates in many writing activities, including the Nashville Writers' Council that he founded. His greatest passion, however, is volunteering for children’s causes. And with his sons now pursuing their careers, you will no longer find him coaching youth baseball and football or helping out at the local school. Instead, you may find him on hiking trails, on the beach, or . . . in a library somewhere in the country.