Sherwin B. Nuland is the author of the best-selling How We Die, which won the 1994 National Book Award for Nonfiction, The Mysteries Within: A Surgeon Reflects on Medical Myth, The Biography of Medicine, & The Wisdom of the Body, recently published in paperback as How We Live. He is Clinical Professor of Surgery at Yale University, where he also teaches medical history & bioethics. He lives in Hamden, Connecticut.