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Indian-American neurosurgeon and writer

Paul Kalanithi

1977–2015, born Bronxville, writes in English, writer

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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Also writing in English