Jack Michonik was born in Geneva, Switzerland, of Russian parents, and raised in Bogotá, Colombia. He attended high school in New York and graduated in Business Administration from the University of Grenoble, France. He then lived in Cali, Colombia, for 20 years (1958-1978) before permanently settling in Tel Aviv with his wife and two children.

Jack writes in Spanish. His works include Eldorado (Editorial Orlanco, Colombia), La Novela (Semana Publishing Co, Jerusalem), The Unusual Story of Christian White (Plaza y Valdes, Mexico), Como Alma en Pene (Plaza y Valdes & Amazon Kindle) and Obsesión (Amazon Kindle). His popular book La Descendencia was translated into French as La Descendance and published by Éditions Héloïse d'Ormesson in 2009. The corresponding English edition, The Heritage was published on Amazon Kindle in 2015. The Hebrew translation, “HaMoreshet”, came out in 2018, published by Kinneret, Zmora-Bitan. The sequel to La Descendencia, La "Colonia" que Fue, published in 2018, is hereby presented to the English public as A Tale of a Colony (2023).