Will Friese was raised in the suburbs of Chicago, Illinois. He graduated with a degree in engineering from Cornell University in 1988; he was done with engineering by 1990. That winter, in Colorado, while waiting tables, snowboarding, and watching Wolf Blitzer give updates on the Gulf War, Will discovered medicine as his true calling. After receiving a medical degree from the University of Pittsburgh in 1997, he moved to Phoenix, Arizona, where he practices General Surgery. He again is feeling the itch to change careers. Finance is looking good; writing is not.