1998 The Richard Selzer Lecture, Yale Program for the Humanities in Medicine Knife Song Korea (2009), finalist in Fiction & Literature (Literary Fiction category of the "Best Books 2010" Awards, sponsored by USA Book News); silver medalist in 2010 Independent Publishers Book Award in Literary Fiction; 2009 Editor's Choice Award for Fiction by Foreword Magazine The Selzer Prize for Writing, Des Moines University, 2010 (see above) Honorary degrees (13), including from his alma maters, Union College (1981) and Albany Medical College (1984) Contributing Editor: Literature and Medicine, Bellevue Literary Review, Mediphors (A Literary Journal of the Health Humanities), et al. References External links The Surgeon Who Became a Best-Selling Author: The Life and Work of Dr. Richard Selzer. See www.medicalhumanities.net Dr. Selzer's Papers in the Moody Medical library at the University of Texas An article, by Dr. Selzer, in The New York Times about his 1986 malpractice trial Richard Selzer quotes Interview at Teen Ink The Abaton; Medical Humanities Journal Richard Selzer, Who Fictionalized Medicine's Absurdity and Gore, Dies at 87 Richard Selzer, American surgeon turned author noted for his wide-ranging essays and fiction which put him in the vanguard of medical chroniclers, has died at age 87. The Telegraph 14 September 2016. Richard Selzer, Surgeon who Wrote of the Mystery and Meaning of Medicine, Dies at 87 A Question of Mercy, a bioethics article on physician-assisted suicide Richard Selzer: the birth of literature and medicine “‘The Tending Act’—An Interview with Richard Selzer.” The Journal of Medical Humanities 17.3 (Fall 1996): 147-64. Reprint in Composition Studies 24.1-2 (1996). Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database--an annotation of 44 Selzer stories and essays 1928 births 2016 deaths 20th-century American novelists Albany Medical College alumni American male novelists American male short story writers 20th-century American memoirists American surgeons Medical fiction writers Writers from Troy, New York Union College (New York) alumni 20th-century American short story writers PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction winners 20th-century American male writers Novelists from New York (state) American male non-fiction writers