Emmet Hirsch, MD is a practicing obstetrician-gynecologist at Endeavor Health Evanston Hospital in Evanston, Illinois, and Clinical Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Pritzker School of Medicine at the University of Chicago. He is author of the novels The Education of Doctor Montefiore and The Wolf Shall Dwell with the Lamb. Dr. Hirsch has published a number of short stories, patient vignettes and reflections on medical practice in leading literary and medical journals and the lay press. In addition, he is an active researcher with over 70 scientific publications focusing on various topics, including the molecular pathophysiology of preterm labor and, in the clinical realm, the achievement of safe vaginal delivery. Emmet lives in Evanston, Illinois with his wife Arica, also a physician. He has four children, two-and-a-half in-law children, and one grandson, who possesses the cuteness of a thousand babies.