Sherwin B. Nuland

About the Author

Sherwin B. Nuland, MD, is the author of nine other books including How We Die: Reflections on Life’s Final Chapter, which spent thirty-four weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. His writing has appeared in the New Yorker, the New Republic, the New York Times, and Time. Nuland is a clinical professor of surgery at Yale University, where he also teaches bioethics and medical history.