Stanford University biology professor, physician, and novelist Abraham Verghese will deliver the keynote address at Harvard’s ...

On his web page Verghese provides a list of 64 important characters and their relationships (including the list in the book would have been an act of kindness). They reflect the diversity of modern ...

Left-Digit Bias and Other Random Acts of Medicine A new book reveals how chance can change ... and Dr Robert Harrington interview Dr Abraham Verghese about his fiction writing methods and Oprah's ...

Last year’s book list included “The Covenant of Water” by Abraham Verghese, “The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory,” by Tim Alberta and “The Vaster Wilds” by Lauren Groff.

An infectious disease physician, Verghese has closely witnessed what suffering truly entails, and how illnesses are violation of the spirit — a reason why in , his fourth book, he delves deeper ...