He had a religious, conservative and very formal education of which Jorge partially united[clarification needed], when he began to study journalism at the Universidad de Chile in 1969.
That book became later one of the biggest successes of Chilean publications, although the coup d'état of General Augusto Pinochet was a hard misfortune for the culture and literature of this country.
Simultaneously he wrote literary reviews for the evening newspaper La Segunda, but his vocation as a journalist did not consolidate and in the 1980s Televisión Nacional de Chile, a TV channel from Santiago, hired him as a screenwriter.
Being a television series writer was not widely admired or highly regarded during those years and Jorge Marchant was strongly criticized for working in this field.
Although Jorge Marchant officially lives in Santiago, the capital city of Chile, he spends more or less half of the year in New York, with a complete dedication to the job of writing.