Samuel Shem (Stephen Bergman M.D.) graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard College and earned a Ph.D in physiology from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He graduated from Harvard Medical School. He is the author of the novels The House of God, Mount Misery and Fine, and seven plays, including, with Janet Surrey, Bill W. and Dr. Bob. He is on the faculty of Harvard Medical School and the Stone Centre, Wellesley College. He lives near Boston with his wife and daughter.
'Outrageously funny...a sage and important book' * The Boston Globe * 'Provocative, complex and disturbing...[Shem] writes with enough passion that we care and enough wisdom that we are able to understand' * American Oxonian * 'An engrossing read...darkly entertaining...One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest for the 90s' * San Diego Union Tribune *