Stuart W. Mirsky is the author of a number of other books including A Raft on the River (2006), the true story of a young girl's escape from the Nazis in World War II Poland, and two works of philosophy: Choice and Action (2014) and Value and Representation (2019), exploring the cognitive content of moral belief and decision-making. He previously wrote a bi-weekly column for a local newspaper for close to two decades, touching on social and political matters, and is a former bureaucrat with thirty years of public service.