Abraham Verghese
Abraham Verghese ( born 1955 in Ethiopia ) is an Indian -American physician and bestselling author.
Life
Verghese was born as the son of Indian Malankara Christians in Ethiopia, but had to leave the country due to political upheavals and has lived in the U.S. since the 70s. His older brother George Verghese is Professor of Engineering at MIT. Initially, he worked as a doctor in Tennessee, then in Texas, where he also wrote his first two semi - autobiographical books about his terminally ill AIDS patients and tennis partner.
Education and Career
His medical education in Ethiopia was interrupted by the military coup in 1974. With parents and two brothers Verghese went to the U.S. before he completed his studies at the Madras Medical College in Chennai.
Since 2007 he has worked at Stanford, his third album and first novel return to Missing ( Cutting for Stone) sold over a million copies and was awarded the 2010 Indies Choice Book Award. It is about a growing up as orphans in Ethiopia 60s twins, as men they fall in love with the same woman and are enemies.