Neurosurgeon and author
Paul Kalanithi was an American neurosurgeon whose posthumous memoir When Breath Becomes Air, published in 2016, spent over a year on the New York Times bestseller list and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. He held degrees from Stanford, Cambridge, and Yale before his death from lung cancer at the age of thirty seven.
by Paul Kalanithi
A neurosurgeon diagnosed with terminal cancer reflects on what makes life worth living. Kalanithi's memoir confronts mortality with rare eloquence and intellectual honesty.
The books Paul Kalanithi references, cites, and recommends most frequently.
by Viktor Frankl
Frankl survived Auschwitz and concluded that meaning, not pleasure or power, sustains us through suffering. His logotherapy argues we can find purpose in any circumstance.
Who Paul draws from, and who draws from Paul — aggregated across every book in this collection. Counts show the number of citation links, not the depth of each one.