Using heart transplantation as a metaphor, The Ultimate Donor illustrates what God has done for humanity through the death of Jesus. The paths of becoming a follower of Christ and a heart transplant recipient are similar. As with heart transplant recipients, followers of Christ experience times of diagnosis (knowledge of their sick heart), transplantation (replacing their sick heart with the heart of Christ) and living the post-transplant life (the disciplined life with their new heart). Every heart transplant demands the death of a donor. Fortunately, there is an Ultimate Donor.

Jack "Jackie" Anderson was born in 1949 and grew up on Tybee Island, Georgia, near the Tybee lighthouse. He attended the old wooden school on Butler Avenue and then the new Tybee School when it was finished. He enjoyed fishing, hunting, camping, and looking for historic relics on Tybee and on the islands north and south of Tybee, particularly Little Tybee. Jack started working as a lifeguard at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, in the summers and attended nearby Coastal Carolina College and then the University of South Carolina in Columbia. He met and married Mavis Lane Eaton and moved to Atlanta and raised four children. He worked as a carpenter, then a custom home builder, and furniture designer/builder. He returned to the Low Country in 2005 and spent a few years on Daufuskie restoring several buildings: a Gullah cottage (the Sarah Grant House), the Jane Hamilton School, and the Maryfield School (where Pat Conroy taught). Currently, Jack lives in Marietta, Georgia, with his wife, Mavis. His interests are art, boating, Low Country history and architecture, organic gardening, and poodles.