Paul Kalanithi | |
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Born | April 1, 1977 |
Died | March 9, 2015 | (aged 37)
Education | Stanford University (BA, MA) Darwin College, Cambridge (M.Phil) Yale Medical School (MD) |
Occupations | |
Spouse | Lucy Goddard |
Children | 1 |
Medical career | |
Institutions | Stanford University School of Medicine |
Paul Sudhir Arul Kalanithi (April 1, 1977 – March 9, 2015) was an American neurosurgeon 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.[1] It was on The New York Times Non-Fiction Best Seller list for multiple weeks.[2]