Ron Bahar is the child of Israeli Immigrants and was raised in Lincoln, Nebraska. Since his early childhood, he was fascinated with biology and has been fortunate enough to turn these passions into a career. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a degree in zoology before attending medical school at the University of Nebraska and completing his post-graduate training at UCLA. He now has his own private pediatric gastroenterology practice in the Los Angeles suburb of Encino. Though not a talented musician in his own right, Ron loves listening far too loudly to Spotify music in his otherwise peaceful office. Bahar has two sons and lives in Encino with his two energetic Goldendoodles and wife Laurie.

Ron Bahar is an insecure, self-deprecating, seventeen-year-old Nebraskan striving to please his Israeli immigrant parents, Ophira and Ezekiel, while remaining true to his own dreams. During his senior year of high school, he begins to date longtime crush and non-Jewish girl Amy Andrews—a forbidden relationship he hides from his parents. But that’s not the only complicated part of Ron’s life: he’s also struggling to choose between his two passions, medicine and music. As time goes on, he becomes entangled in a compelling world of sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Will he do the right thing?

A fictionalized memoir of the author’s life as a young man in Lincoln, Nebraska, The Frontman is a coming-of-age tale of love and fidelity.