David Hirshberg specializes in writing literary fiction concerning the American Jewish experience. His first novel—My Mother’s Son—was published in 2018 and won nine awards. His second novel—Jacobo’s Rainbow—will be published in May 2021. Reviewers have compared Hirshberg’s writing to Michael Chabon’s and Saul Bellow’s, among others. Hirshberg received an undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College and a graduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania.