Marc Hirsch was born in July of 1945 in New York City; raised in the Bronx on the Grand Concourse and 205th Street, coincidentally the home of his fictional heroine Alice White. He attended the Bronx High School of Science & graduated Boston University School of Medicine in 1969. November of 1969 he was asked to attend the American Indians of all tribes who had taken over the abandoned island of Alcatraz as a protest. Marc moved to a small island off the coast of British Columbia, Lasqueti, On it he read used paperback murder mysteries by authors like Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler at night by kerosene lamp, developing a lifelong love of the genre. He also delivered a beautiful baby now in her 40’s and a mother herself. Dr. Hirsch has a second degree black belt in Soo Bahk Do, a Korean martial art. He is also a recovering alcoholic. In 2011 he retired from hospitalist work in Kentucky and began as a volunteer at a local free clinic. In 2012 he published the first edition of his first book, The Case. In 2014 he contracted with a small publishing company, Books, Authors and Artists, to re-edit and republish The Case, market the screenplay of The Case and publish his sequel to The Case, which he has named Hard Case.