Marc Behm was born in 1925 in Trenton, New Jersey and served with the US army in Europe during WWII. After playing a variety of small parts in American television, he eventually made a name for himself as a screenwriter. Eye of the Beholder was his second novel and was made into a French film and then later an English language film starring Ewan McGregor. When he retired from screenwriting he published five more novels, including Afraid to Death.