Author

Books by Abraham Verghese

Abraham Verghese is a physician, professor, and author based at Stanford University School of Medicine, where he is a senior associate chair. His memoir My Own Country explored the AIDS epidemic in rural Tennessee, and The Tennis Partner dealt with a friendship complicated by addiction. His nonfiction work has appeared in The New Yorker and The New York Times. The Covenant of Water is his second novel, following Cutting for Stone (2009), which sold over a million copies and spent more than two years on the New York Times bestseller list. He is known for his advocacy for the physical examination and the patient-physician relationship.