Abraham Verghese
When Breath Becomes Air, The Tennis Partner, Cutting for Stone, Book of Medicine, My Own Country: A Doctor’s Story.
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Abraham Verghese, MD, MACP, is Professor and Vice Chair at the School of Medicine at Stanford University. He is also a critically acclaimed, best-selling author and a physician with an international reputation for his focus on healing in an era where technology often overwhelms the human side of medicine. In February 2014, he received a Heinz Award from Teresa Heinz and the Heinz Family Foundation. The awards given annually in the areas of Arts and Humanities; Environment; Human Condition; Public Policy; and Technology, the Economy and Employment, celebrate the enduring spirit of hope and the power of innovation.
Alicia Michaels
When Breath Becomes Air, The Tennis Partner, Cutting for Stone, Book of Medicine, My Own Country: A Doctor’s Story.
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Ever since she first read books like Chronicles of Narnia or Goosebumps, Alicia has been a lover of mind-bending fiction. Wherever imagination takes her, she is more than happy to call that place her home. With several Fantasy and Science Fiction titles under her belt, Alicia strives to write multicultural characters and stories that touch the heart. V-Card
Chalene Johnson
When Breath Becomes Air, The Tennis Partner, Cutting for Stone, Book of Medicine, My Own Country: A Doctor’s Story.
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Chalene Johnson is a world-renowned motivational speaker with more than 30 years as a health expert. She is a New York Times best-selling author, health and lifestyle expert, and top health podcaster with over 20 million downloads of her show. Tens of millions of people around the globe have transformed their bodies and their lives with her help,
Vicki Lewis Thompson
When Breath Becomes Air, The Tennis Partner, Cutting for Stone, Book of Medicine, My Own Country: A Doctor’s Story.
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Vicki Lewis Thompson is a best-selling American writer of over seventy romance novels. She has both a B.A. and M.A. in English from the University of Arizona. She worked as a journalist and a high school English teacher before deciding that she would try to write romance novels. Her first book was published in 1984 as the ninth entry in the Harlequin Temptation line.
Will Hobbs
When Breath Becomes Air, The Tennis Partner, Cutting for Stone, Book of Medicine, My Own Country: A Doctor’s Story.
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Will Hobbs is the author of nineteen novels for upper elementary, middle school and young adult readers, as well as two picture book stories. Hobbs credits his sense of audience to his fourteen years of teaching reading and English in southwest Colorado. When he turned to writing, he set his stories mostly in wild places he knew from firsthand experience.
Timothy Wilson
When Breath Becomes Air, The Tennis Partner, Cutting for Stone, Book of Medicine, My Own Country: A Doctor’s Story.
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Timothy D. Wilson is an American social psychologist and writer. He is the Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia and teaches public policy at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. He is known for his research on self-knowledge and the influence of the unconscious mind on decision-making, preferences and behavior.
N. K. Jemisin
When Breath Becomes Air, The Tennis Partner, Cutting for Stone, Book of Medicine, My Own Country: A Doctor’s Story.
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Nora K. Jemisin is an author of speculative fiction short stories and novels who lives and writes in Brooklyn, NY. In 2018, she became the first author to win three Hugos in a row for her Broken Earth novels. She has also won a Nebula Award, two Locus Awards, and a number of other honors.
Kevin Baker
When Breath Becomes Air, The Tennis Partner, Cutting for Stone, Book of Medicine, My Own Country: A Doctor’s Story.
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Kevin Baker was born in August 1958, in Englewood, New Jersey, and grew up in Rockport, Massachusetts, a small town on the North Shore. He graduated from Columbia University in New York City in 1980, and since then has earned his living as a writer and editor. In 1993, Baker's first book, Sometimes You See it Coming (1993), a contemporary baseball novel loosely based on the life of Ty Cobb, was published.