Andrew SchaferAndrew Schafer was born in Budapest and at the age of nine escaped with his family to the west following the defeat of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. Educated in medicine at the Universities of Pennsylvania and Chicago, he became a distinguished hemaologist at Harvard Medical School. He was later elected to the presidency of the American Society of Hematology, and also served as chairman of the departments of medicine and chief of medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, the University of Pennsylvania, and Cornell. Elected to the National Academy of Medicine and to leadership in other prominent medical organizations, he continues to be an active clinical practitioner, researcher, and medical educator at Weill Cornell Medical College and the New York-Presbyterian Hospital. An editor and author of major medical textbooks as well as hundreds of original research articles in medicine, this is his first foray into historical fiction. He lives in New York City with his wife, Pauline, and is the proud father of three children and grandfather of six grandchildren. Read More Read Less