Verghese, Abraham, 1955-

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Name (Hebrew)
ורגיז, אברהם, 1955-
Name (Latin)
Verghese, Abraham, 1955-
Other forms of name
Verghese, Abraham C., 1955-
Verghese, A. (Abraham), 1955-
Date of birth
1955
Associated country
India
United States
Field of activity
Education, Higher
Fiction
Medicine
Occupation
Authors
Physicians
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 93233765
Wikidata: Q1446797
Library of congress: n 88097499
Sources of Information
  • Cutting for stone, 2009:title page (Abraham Verghese)
  • My own country, c1994:title page (Abraham Verghese)
  • The covenant of water, 2023:CIP title page (Abraham Verghese) galley (also by Abraham Verghese: Cutting for stone, The tennis partner, My own country)
  • The covenant of water, 2023:dust jacket (Abraham Verghese is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He is Provostial Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine. abrahamverghese.org)
  • The tennis partner, c1998:title page (Abraham Verghese)
  • Infections in nursing homes and long-term care facilities, 1990:CIP t.p. (A. Verghese; Johnson City, Tenn.) contributors p., etc. (Verghese, Abraham C.; MD; East Tenn. St. Univ., Quillen-Dishner Coll. of Med., Johnson City, TN; b. 5/30/55)
  • wikipedia, June 24, 2008(Abraham Verghese, Indian-American doctor and author; his family originates from Kerala, India, born and raised in Ethiopia; completed his medical degree in Madras, India; immigrated to the United States as a foreign medical graduate seeking open residency, he obtained a post in Johnson City, Tenn.; he served for five years as director of the Center for Medical Humanities and Ethics at Univ. of Texas, currently is senior associate chair for the new program in the Theory and Practice of Medicine at Stanford Univ.; he is author of My own country, The tennis partner, and is working on a novel, called Cutting for stone)
  • The Author's קרבת דם, תשס"ט 2009.