Marcus Hurst was born in 1992, and was raised in the Buffalo Valley, in central Pennsylvania, where his family operated a dairy farm.

At the age of nineteen, Marcus taught sixth & seventh grade in a rural private school. He later served a few winter terms as a mentor, at Red Rock Refuge (a home for troubled teenage boys,) between working at a local bicycle shop and framing contractor. At the time of this writing, he is teaching school again.

It was his love for his fellowmen, and his desire to help them find answers to some of their biggest questions, that motivated Hurst, as a teenager and later a young adult, to dedicate his spare time to writing this work.

In addition to The Box Top to Life’s Puzzle, Marcus has written a number of short articles for various publications. He says, “It’s like I told my dad when I was 16 years old. I told him, ‘I think I’ll have some writing project or another, that I’ll be working on, for the rest of my life.’”