David Hirshberg

David Hirshberg is the pseudonym for an entrepreneur who prefers to keep his business activities separate from his writing endeavors. Using his given name, he is an accomplished ‘C-level suite’ executive, having served in the life sciences industry as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of five firms, Chairman of the Board of eight companies and a member of the board of two other organizations. Hirshberg is a New Yorker who holds an undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College and a master’s degree from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He has written three historical literary novels (My Mother’s Son – 2018, Jacobo’s Rainbow – 2021, and Crossing the Bronx – scheduled for a June 2026 release); none of them has anything to do with activities in his profession. His current book—Crossing the Bronx—is a historical literary novel set primarily in the 1950s in The Bronx. It completes his Mid-Century Trilogy that illuminates the 1950s and ’60s, a time framed by World War II and the Vietnam War, when Jews began to shed their outsider status and integrate into the fabric of American society, cloaked with both its goodness and strife.