Abraham Verghese

Abraham Verghese received Lambda Literary Award, National Humanities Medal, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Guggenheim Fellowship and Heinz Award.

21 works under this name are catalogued by Wikidata Query Service, Open Library and Wellcome Collection. Their recorded dates run from 1994 to 2016.

Cutting for Stone. My Own Country. The Tennis Partner. Abraham Verghese: A doctor's touch, dated 2011, held by TED, inventory 1231. The Covenant of Water. Farewell to Arms : (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition). Abscond. Watching Insects. Short Stories. Of Human Bondage. Tennis Partner. Gozyasi Kapisi. New York Times Book of Medicine. The Body. The Tennis Partner (ARC), dated 1998. Soundings, dated 1994. Cutting for stone : a novel / Abraham Verghese., dated 2009, held by Wellcome Collection. When breath becomes air / Paul Kalanithi ; foreword by Abraham Verghese., dated 2016, held by Wellcome Collection. Soundings : a doctor's story of a town and its people in the age of AIDS / Abraham Verghese., dated 1994, held by Wellcome Collection. My own country : a doctor's story of a town and its people in the age of AIDS / Abraham Verghese., dated [1994], held by Wellcome Collection. The country doctor revisited : a twenty-first-century reader / edited by Therese Zink., dated [2010], held by Wellcome Collection.

Work associated with this heading is recorded in 2 named public collections.

TED: 1 recorded object, read from the institution's own published catalogue. Wellcome Collection: 5 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue.

13 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.

Vallikalayil Verghese Abraham, BMJ, 2019. Verghese, Abraham, Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL), 2020. Verghese, Abraham: Cutting for Stone, Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL), 2020. Verghese, Abraham (1955–), Encyclopedic Dictionary of Diasporic Indian English Writing, 2025. Abraham Verghese: the body as text, The Lancet, 2026. A cost-effective orchard netting against fruit sucking moth (Eudocima materna) in pomegranate (Punica granatum), The Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 2026. Breaking Away from the iPatient to Care for the Real Patient: Implementing a Patient-Centered EMR Use Curriculum, MedEdPORTAL, 2014. Oviposition site-selection by Bactrocera dorsalis is mediated through an innate recognition template tuned to γ-octalactone., PLoS ONE, 2014. Medicine and the Humanities, Canadian Journal of Bioethics, 2023. Genome sequences of Photorhabdus luminescens strains isolated from entomopathogenic nematodes from southern India, Genomics Data, 2015. Plant Traits in Fig as Indicators of Resistance to Shoot Borer, Dyscerus? Fletcheri Marshall (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), Journal of Horticultural Sciences, 2015. Salicylic Acid Induces Changes in Mango Fruit that Affect Oviposition Behavior and Development of the Oriental Fruit Fly, Bactrocera dorsalis., PLoS ONE, 2015. Diversity of culturable gut bacteria associated with the field populations of cotton leafhopper (Amrasca biguttula biguttula) in India, The Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 2016.

3 digitised items associated with this heading are catalogued by Internet Archive.

My own country (1994) — Internet Archive. Tennis Partner (1998) — Internet Archive. Cutting for stone (2009) — Internet Archive.

Bibliographic registers publish measured figures for this heading: 13 language editions of the general reference literature carrying an article (Wikimedia (language editions)). A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.

This article draws on 5 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 5 means 5 genuinely separate publishers of record. 13 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.

Abraham Verghese studied at Madras Medical College and East Tennessee State University. the recorded working language is English.

Employment is recorded with Stanford University. Membership is recorded of American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Works named in the authority record are Cutting for Stone, The Covenant of Water and The Tennis Partner.

Distinctions recorded are Lambda Literary Award, National Humanities Medal, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and Guggenheim Fellowship.