Monday, March 02, 2009

What is Abraham Verghese reading?

The current featured contributor to Writers Read: Abraham Verghese, author of the newly released novel, Cutting for Stone.

Read an excerpt from Cutting for Stone.

Verghese is also the author of The Tennis Partner, a New York Times Notable Book, and My Own Country, a National Book Critics Circle finalist. Currently a professor of internal medicine at Stanford University, he has also served on faculties in Iowa, Texas, and Tennessee. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, his fiction and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, and Granta.

Visit Abraham Verghese's website.

Find out what youthful literary enthusiasm he is revisiting at: Writers Read: Abraham Verghese.

--Marshal Zeringue