Paul Kalanithi
Paul Kalanithi | |
|---|---|
| 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. It was on The New York Times Non-Fiction Best Seller list for multiple weeks.