• Born: 1930
• Birthplace: New York

Sherwin B. Nuland, M.D., is the author of nine books, including Doctors: The Biography of Medicine, The Wisdom of the Body, The Mysteries Within, Lost in America: A Journey with My Father, and The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignác Semmelweis. His book How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter won the National Book Award and spent thirty-four weeks on the New York Times best-seller list. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, The New York Times, Time, and The New York Review of Books. Nuland is a clinical professor of surgery at Yale University, where he also teaches bioethics and clinical medicine and where he practiced surgery for 30 years (at Yale-New Haven Hospital).

Most Famous Works

• Doctors: The Biography of Medicine (1988)
• How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter (1994)
• The Wisdom of the Body (1997)
• How We Live (1998)
• Lost In America: A Journey With My Father (2003)
• The Mysteries Within (2005)
• Leonardo da Vinci (2005)
• Maimonides (2005)

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