Born of Indian parents in Ethiopia, Abraham Verghese came to the United States to complete his medical training. His first book, My Own Country: A Doctor’s Story (1994), described his work with AIDS patients in a rural community in Tennessee. It was followed by The Tennis Partner (1998), a New York Times bestseller that Kaye Gibbons called, “a wonderful examination of what it means to be alive.”

Verghese is the senior associate chairman for the theory and practice of medicine at Stanford University. Cutting For Stone (2009), his first novel, is a sweeping story that has remained on the New York Times bestseller list for over 52 weeks. John Irving has said, “That Abraham Verghese as a doctor and a writer is already established; the miracle of this novel is how organically the two are entwined.”

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