Nir Baram was born into a polit­i­cal fam­i­ly in Jerusalem in 1976. His grand­fa­ther and father were both Israeli Labor Par­ty min­is­ters. He has worked as a jour­nal­ist and edi­tor, and began pub­lish­ing fic­tion 22 years old. Between 1998 and 2006 Nir pub­lished three nov­els. Good Peo­ple is the first of his works to be pub­lished in English.