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    Abraham Verghese, author portrait
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    Abraham Verghese

    Abraham Verghese is Professor and Vice Chair for the Theory and Practice of Medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine. The founding director of the Center for Medical Humanities & Ethics at the University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, he is the author of My Own Country, a 1994 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist and a Time Best Book of the Year; The Tennis Partner, a New York Times Notable Book; and, most recently, the critically acclaimed novel Cutting for Stone, which was a national bestseller. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, his essays and short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, Granta, The Wall Street Journal, and elsewhere. In 2016 Verghese received a National Humanities Medal from President Obama. He lives in Palo Alto, California.
    Cutting for Stone
    Cutting for Stone
    Abraham Verghese
    9780375714368
    $20.00 US
    Paperback
    Jan 26, 2010
    Vintage
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB
    My Own Country
    My Own Country
    A Doctor's Story
    Abraham Verghese
    9780679752929
    $19.00 US
    Paperback
    Apr 25, 1995
    Vintage
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB

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    Cutting for Stone
    Cutting for Stone
    Abraham Verghese
    9780375714368
    $20.00 US
    Paperback
    Jan 26, 2010
    Vintage
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB
    My Own Country
    My Own Country
    A Doctor's Story
    Abraham Verghese
    9780679752929
    $19.00 US
    Paperback
    Apr 25, 1995
    Vintage
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB

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