Paul Kalanithi
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Biography
Paul Kalanithi (1977-2015) was born in New York to Indian immigrant parents and raised in Kingman, Arizona. He earned degrees in human biology and English literature at Stanford, a master's degree in English literature from Stanford, an MD from Yale, and completed a neurosurgical residency at Stanford. He was awarded the American Academy of Neurological Surgery's highest research award and was named one of the top academic neurosurgery programs' most promising graduates. In 2013, at thirty-six, he was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. He died in March 2015, nine months before this memoir was published. He was survived by his wife Lucy, a physician, and their daughter Elizabeth Acadia ('Cady'), born eight months before his death.