Marc Hirsch was born in New York City in 1945. He attended Boston University School of medicine, graduating in 1969. After 42 years as a doctor he retired from hospitalist practice in 2011. He published his first book, The Case, in 2012 and this sequel, titled Hard Case, in 2015. The Case has been edited and republished as a second edition in 2014. Plans for his screenplay of The Case are being made.