Michael Ellman

Michael Ellman is a retired Professor of Medicine at the University of Chicago. His stories run the gamut from coming of age, to magic realism, to science fiction. All of them are about people, especially people you know. That's the common denominator of storytelling. Several of the stories are spotted with medical details. "Write what you know," the writing teachers preach; read them anyway (and no whining) and you'll laugh or cry or both.