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Richard Selzer is a surgeon and author. He was born (1928) and raised in Troy, New York, United States. His father was Julius Selzer, M.D. a general practitioner who practiced from the ground floor of the family home at Fifth Avenue in Troy. His mother, Gertrude Selzer, was an amateur singer who performed in local productions of musicals and opera. Richard Selzer graduated from Union College in 1948, with a B.S. and received his M.D. from Albany Medical College in 1953. He served in the Army for two years as a lieutenant in charge of a medical detachment. In 1960, following a surgical internship and residency at Yale University, he joined the faculty of Yale as a professor of surgery, where he remained until his retirement in 1985. Beginning in the 1970s, Dr. Selzer became well known as an author as well. Richard Selzer books are generally collections of short stories, essays, and memoirs, including selections from his massive diary. But ''Imagine A Woman'' consists entirely of fiction, and he has written two full-length memoirs, ''Raising the Dead,'' and ''Down from Troy: A Doctor Comes of Age.'' With author and friend Peter Josyph, Selzer published a kind of spoken autobiography, ''What One Man Said to Another: Talks with Richard Selzer,'' which has also been recorded as a Blackstone audiobook with Peter Josyph reading the part of Richard Selzer and actor Raymond Todd reading the part of Peter Josyph. Josyph also edited and illustrated a collection of Selzer's correspondence with him, called ''Letters to A Best Friend.'' Selzer's most recent books are ''Diary,'' which consists entirely of entries from the journal he has kept religiously for decades, and the novel ''Knife Song Korea,'' which is closely based on his experience as a very young surgeon in the U.S. Army in a remote Korean village after the close of the Korean War. The novel won three prizes for literary fiction. ==Published works== Among his published books are: *''Rituals of Surgery'' (1973) *''Mortal Lessons: Notes on the Art of Surgery'' (1976) *''Confessions of a Knife'' (1979) *''Letters to a Young Doctor'' (1982) *''Taking the World in for Repairs'' (1986) *''Imagine a Woman'' (1990) *''Down from Troy: A Doctor Comes of Age'' (1992; autobiography) *''Raising the Dead: A Doctor’s Encounter with His Own Mortality'' (1993) *''What One Man Said to Another: Talks with Richard Selzer'' (1994; with Peter Josyph)) *''The Doctor Stories'' (1998) *''The Exact Location of the Soul: New and Selected Essays'' (2001) *''The Whistler's Room: Stories and Essays'' (2004) *''Knife Song Korea: A novel (2009) *''Letters to a Best Friend'' (2009; with Peter Josyph) *''Diary'' (2010) Dr. Richard Selzer included his short story "Poe's Light-house," inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's "The Light-House", in ''The Doctor Stories'', published by Picador. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Richard Selzer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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