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Stephen Bergman

Stephen Bergman

writer, psychiatrist
Samuel Shem, pen name of Stephen Bergman, is a novelist, playwright, essayist, and activist. A graduate of Harvard College and Medical School, and Oxford as a Rhodes scholar, he was on the faculty for 35 years. His novels, The House of God, Fine, and Mount Misery have sold over 3 million copies.
Image of The Spirit of the Place
Author: Samuel Shem
Publisher: Kent State University Press (2008)
Binding: Hardcover, 334 pages
Image of The House of God: The Classic Novel of Life and Death in an American Hospital
Author: Samuel Shem
Publisher: Dell (2003)
Binding: Paperback, 416 pages
Image of Mount Misery
Author: Samuel Shem M.D.
Publisher: Ballantine Books (2003)
Binding: Paperback, 576 pages
Author: Samuel Shem M.D.
Publisher: Dell (1986)
Binding: Mass Market Paperback, pages
Image of We Have to Talk : Healing Dialogues Between Men and Women
Author: Janet Surrey, Samuel Shem, Stephen Bergman
Publisher: Basic Books (1999)
Binding: Paperback, 238 pages