won the Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science. In November 2016, he was one of three recipients of the Massachusetts Governor's Award in the Humanities for his contributions to improving civic life in Massachusetts. In May 2022 he was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Sciences by the University of Pennsylvania at their annual commencement ceremony. Bibliography Books Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science. (Picador, 2002) Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance. (Picador, 2008) The Checklist Manifesto. (Metropolitan Books, 2009) Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End. (Metropolitan Books, 2014) Essays and reporting References External links Interviews and Talks Charlie Rose – interviews 2007–2010 The Daily Show – guest on February 3, 2010 Atul Gawande on Real Healthcare Reform and His New Book, The Checklist Manifesto – video report by Democracy Now! '' 30 Minute interview on his book, Complications. With Hugh LaFollette, On "Ideas and Issues" WET-FM. 1965 births Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford American surgeons American male non-fiction writers American male writers of Indian descent American medical writers American people of Marathi descent American Rhodes Scholars Biden administration personnel Harvard Medical School alumni Harvard Medical School faculty Harvard School of Public Health alumni Harvard School of Public Health faculty Hastings Center Fellows Living people MacArthur Fellows New America (organization) People from Athens, Ohio People from Brooklyn People of the United States Agency for International Development Stanford University alumni The New Yorker people Writers from Boston 21st-century American physicians Members of the National Academy of Medicine American people of Indian descent Indian scholars