Writing a Memoir, Writing a Biography | Write Your Memoir» Abraham Verghese http://writeyourmemoir.com Because you don't have to be a writer to write a memoir. Mon, 27 Jun 2011 15:15:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Memoirs By Doctors http://writeyourmemoir.com/memoirs-by-doctors/ http://writeyourmemoir.com/memoirs-by-doctors/#comments Sun, 11 Jul 2010 16:06:32 +0000 martha_jewett http://writeyourmemoir.com/?p=860

Abraham Verghese recommended in yesterday’s Five Best in The Wall Street Journal five of his favorite books by physicians, including two memoirs. Adventures in Two Worlds is A. J. Cronin’s memoir about being a young physician in a Welsh mining town. The Puzzle People by Thomas E. Starzl is the memoir of the pioneer transplantation surgeon.

]]> http://writeyourmemoir.com/memoirs-by-doctors/feed/ 0 A Favorite Memoirist Turns Novelist http://writeyourmemoir.com/a-favorite-memoirist-turns-novelist/ http://writeyourmemoir.com/a-favorite-memoirist-turns-novelist/#comments Sun, 04 Apr 2010 23:22:33 +0000 martha_jewett http://writeyourmemoir.com/?p=771 Memoirs by physicians have have the added layer of insight which comes from a trained physician’s eye. Abraham Verghese’s 1994 memoir, My Own Country: A Doctor’s Story, is one of my favorite physician-memoirs. Verghese published a wonderful first novel last year, Cutting for Stone:

Review of Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

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