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A physician and novelist, this Atlanta-born writer brings a rare mix of medical insight and literary craft to his fiction. His debut novel, Brother's Keeper, pairs suspense with questions of grief, loyalty, and redemption.

by C. E. Smith

by C. E. Smith
Born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, he studied English at Stanford and medicine at Vanderbilt before building a career in radiology.
In 2013, he won Shakespeare & Company's international Paris Literary Prize, an early sign of the literary talent he would later bring to fiction.
He lives in Louisville, Kentucky, with his wife and children, where he works as a radiologist. His first novel, Brother's Keeper, reflects both his medical background and his interest in emotionally charged, high-stakes storytelling.