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Bio

(1928-2016) Writer. Richard Selzer was born in Troy, New York, and died in North Branford, Connecticut.

Full Name

Richard Selzer

Locations

Rensselaer

Author's Timeline


1928

BIRTH

Allen Richard Selzer was born in Troy, New York, on June 24, 1928.

1948

OTHER

Dr. Selzer graduated from Union College in Schenectady, New York, in 1948.

1953

OTHER

Dr. Selzer graduated from Albany Medical college in Albany, New York, 1953.

1974

LITWORK

Rituals Of Surgery
Harper's Magazine Press

Collection of short stories.

1979

LITWORK

Confessions Of A Knife
Simon & Schuster
067124292X / 978-0671242923
Collection of essays.

1981

LITWORK

Mortal Lessons: Notes Of The Art Of Surgery
Chatto & Windus
0701125586 / 978-0701125585
Collection of essays.

1982

LITWORK

Letters To A Young Doctor
Simon & Schuster
0671253395 / 978-0671253394
Collection of essays.

1993

LITWORK

Raising the Dead: A Doctor���s Encounter with His Own Mortality
Whittle Direct Books
187973611X / 978-1879736115
Nonfiction.

1998

LITWORK

The Doctor Stories
Picador USA
0312186878 / 978-0312186876
Collection of short stories.

2001

LITWORK

The Exact Location of the Soul: New and Selected Essays
Picador
0312261462 / 978-0312261467
Collection of essays.

2004

LITWORK

The Whistler's Room: Stories and Essays
Counterpoint
1593760191 / 978-1593760199
Collection of stories and essays.

2009

LITWORK

Knife Song Korea: A Novel
State University of New York Press
1438427611 / 978-1438427614
Novel.

2011

LITWORK

Diary
Yale University Press
0300124619 / 978-0300124613
Memoirs.

2016

DEATH

Richard Selzer died in North Branford, Connecticut, on June 15, 2016.

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