Samuel Shem

Samuel Shem is a novelist, playwright, and a member of the faculty of the New York University School of Medicine at NYU Langone Medical Center. His novels include Man's 4th Best Hospital , The House of God , Mount Misery , Fine , and The Spirit of the Place . He is coauthor with his wife, Janet Surrey, of the hit Off-Broadway play Bill W. and Dr. Bob , the story of the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous (winner of the 2007 Performing Arts Award of the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug...See more

Samuel Shem is a novelist, playwright, and a member of the faculty of the New York University School of Medicine at NYU Langone Medical Center. His novels include Man's 4th Best Hospital , The House of God , Mount Misery , Fine , and The Spirit of the Place . He is coauthor with his wife, Janet Surrey, of the hit Off-Broadway play Bill W. and Dr. Bob , the story of the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous (winner of the 2007 Performing Arts Award of the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence), and We Have to Talk: Healing Dialogues Between Women and Men. See less