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Paul Kalanithi
AuthorBooks · Second hand1977-2015
Paul Sudhir Arul Kalanithi was an American neurosurgeon, neuroscientist, and writer. His book When Breath Becomes Air is a memoir about his life and illness with stage IV metastatic lung cancer. It was posthumously published by Random House in January 2016. It was on The New York Times Non-Fiction Best Seller list for multiple weeks.
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About Paul Kalanithi
Birth
1977
Death
2015
First book
2016
Years writing
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Paul Sudhir Arul Kalanithi was an American neurosurgeon, neuroscientist, and writer. His book When Breath Becomes Air is a memoir about his life and illness with stage IV metastatic lung cancer. It was posthumously published by Random House in January 2016. It was on The New York Times Non-Fiction Best Seller list for multiple weeks.
Paul Kalanithi was a distinguished neurosurgeon who balanced his medical career with a profound passion for writing.
His most acclaimed work, When Breath Becomes Air, is a moving memoir about life and illness.
Born in Bronxville, Kalanithi pursued much of his academic and professional career at prestigious institutions like Yale and Stanford.
The author faced a stage IV lung cancer diagnosis, an experience that deeply shaped his final life and literary chapter.
His book was published posthumously, becoming a seminal work on the human condition and mortality.
