Paddy Hirsch

Paddy Hirsch is a British journalist, explainer and author of crime and historical fictional novels. He spent two decades working in the news before he got into fiction writing when he published “The Devil’s Half Mile” his debut that was published in both the UK and the US. The historical thriller is set in the tail end of eighteenth-century New York and the name of the title is a pseudonym for the financial district of Wall Street. As such, the novel has a lot to do with the themes of high finance, criminality and corruption. After the success of his novel among readers and critics alike, he followed it up with “Hudson’s Kill” set in the first decade of the 19th century. He used to work at Marketplace where he spent seven years hosting “The Marketplace Whiteboard,” a series of two-minute pithy online video explainers of financial terms. He won the Webby honoree for his Whiteboard series in 2009, the Edward R Murrow award in 2014 and a Stanford University Fellowship in 2010. He currently lives in Los Angeles and does most of his fiction writing during the weekends and at night. When he is not writing he loves to run, climb hills and surf.