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About Spencer Nadler

Spencer Nadler was born in Montreal and graduated from Queen’s University School Of Medicine in Kingston, Ontario. After internship at The Montreal General Hospital of McGill University and another year of surgical residency there, he completed a pathology residency at Albert Einstein College Of Medicine in The Bronx. He has practiced surgical pathology for more than 25 years in Southern California. In mid medical career he began to write narrative nonfictions and essays that were published in Harper’s Magazine, The American Scholar, Cross Currents, The Missouri Review, The Massachusetts Review, Reader’s Digest, Best American Essays, 2001, and The Essay Connection, 7th Edition, 2004.

“The Language Of Cells: A Doctor And His Patients” a compilation of narrative nonfictions about the lives of nine patients, was published by Random House in 2001. It was Spencer Nadler’s first published book and was an LA Times best seller. The Vintage paperback was published in 2002.

His first short story is forthcoming in The Kenyon Review. A collection of linked short stories that arcs the life of a doctor is in progress.