Max Burger was raised in New York City, graduated from NYU and the Medical School of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in Dublin. He retired after practicing thirty-eight years as a Family Physician, primarily in New Jersey.
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He has published personal interest stories in Medical Economics, JAMA, and AMA News.
His novel Even In Death, a mystery/thriller of a 1970s Dublin pathologist searching for a stolen body, was published by Rogue Phoenix Press in December 2023.
My Father’s Father, a Holocaust Generations Novel, was published in April 2026. The first chapter was published in October 2023 in Embark, a literary magazine. Another excerpt, "Lost and Found," appeared in the September 2024 issue of jewishfiction, an online magazine.