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Books by Paul Kalanithi

Paul Kalanithi was an American neurosurgeon and writer. He studied English literature and human biology at Stanford before completing his medical degree and neurosurgery residency, also at Stanford. In 2013, at 36, he was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. He died in March 2015. When Breath Becomes Air, published posthumously in January 2016, became an immediate bestseller and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His wife Lucy Kalanithi, a physician, has continued to speak and write about end-of-life care in his memory.