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I didn't read a book, at least not on the beach, because again it felt strange to be using words on a page to create signals to transport me to another place when I was already in another place He currently practices and teaches at Stanford University School of Medicine where he is a tenured Professor and Senior Associate Chair for the Theory and Practice of Medicine in the Department of Internal Medicine.

He attended the Iowa Writers Workshop at the University of Iowa where he earned his MFA. Verghese is board-certified in internal medicine, pulmonary medicine and infectious diseases. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, Sports Illustrated, and The Wall Street Journal as well as many medical journals. He followed that with The Tennis Partner, also a New York Times notable book and a national bestseller. He is also known for two acclaimed non-fiction works, My Own Country, which was based on his experiences working with persons living with HIV in Johnson City, Tennessee that book was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award and was made into a movie.

His third book and first novel, Cutting for Stone, was published by Knopf in 2009. This sweeping, emotionally riveting novel that "shows how history and landscape and accidents of birth conspire to create the story of a single life" ( Los Angeles Times).Abraham Verghese is a physician and writer. Moving from Addis Ababa to New York City and back again, Cutting for Stone is an unforgettable story of love and betrayal, medicine and ordinary miracles-and two brothers whose fates are forever intertwined. Orphaned by their mother’s death and their father’s disappearance, bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution. Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon. Verghese is something of a magician as a novelist.” - USA Today “Filled with mystical scenes and deeply felt characters.From the author of The Covenant of Water: An enthralling family saga of Africa and America, doctors and patients, exile and home.