Abraham Verghese
Geboren: May 30, 1955 – Addis Ababa, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Abraham Verghese is an Indian American physician, novelist, and essayist whose writing explores medicine, empathy, and migration. He is best known for My Own Country, The Tennis Partner, Cutting for Stone, and The Covenant of Water, which sold more than two million copies worldwide. He teaches medicine at Stanford and received the National Humanities Medal.
Biografie & Werdegang des Autors
Abraham Verghese’s life and work were shaped early by migration, medicine, and upheaval. Born in Addis Ababa in 1955, the second of three sons of Indian parents recruited to teach in Ethiopia, he began medical training there before civil unrest disrupted that path. He then spent time in the United States working as a hospital orderly, an experience that placed him on the most humble rung of hospital life before he completed his medical degree at Madras Medical College, went on to residency in Johnson City, Tennessee, and later trained in infectious diseases at Boston University. The decisive turning point came when he returned to Tennessee and found himself caring for patients in the early rural AIDS epidemic, an experience that altered both his understanding of medicine and the direction of his writing life. ((https://www.abrahamverghese.org/biography/?utm_source=openai))
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"Abraham Verghese is not only an exemplary clinician, he is an exemplary humanist"
— Marc Tessier-Lavigne
"Abraham Verghese is a masterful writer"
— New York Journal of Books
"Ever since Cutting for Stone, we have been eagerly awaiting another book by Abraham Verghese, and what a breathtaking return this is"
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"Abraham Verghese is, in the truest sense of the word, a healer"
— Teresa Heinz
"Abraham Verghese takes us on a journey across nearly a century and more than one continent, all the while dazzling with his rich, elegant prose"
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"That Abraham Verghese is a doctor and a writer is already established; the miracle is how organically the two are entwined"
— John Irving
"Abraham Verghese makes good on the novelist’s covenant with the reader—trust me with your attention and I will reward you with a tale worth inhabiting"
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