Abraham Verghese

ABRAHAM VERGHESE is the author of NBCC Award finalist My Own Country , New York Times Notable Book The Tennis Partner , and Cutting for Stone , which spent 107 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, was translated into more than twenty languages, and is being adapted for film by Anonymous Content. His most recent novel is New York Times bestseller and Oprah's Book Club pick The Covenant of Water . Verghese was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2016, has received five honorary...See more

ABRAHAM VERGHESE is the author of NBCC Award finalist My Own Country , New York Times Notable Book The Tennis Partner , and Cutting for Stone , which spent 107 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, was translated into more than twenty languages, and is being adapted for film by Anonymous Content. His most recent novel is New York Times bestseller and Oprah's Book Club pick The Covenant of Water . Verghese was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2016, has received five honorary degrees, and is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He lives and practices medicine in Stanford, California, where he is the Linda R. Meier and Joan F. Lane Provostial Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine. See less