Among his published books are: Rituals of Surgery (1974) Mortal Lessons: Notes on the Art of Surgery (1976) Confessions of a Knife (1979) Letters to a Young Doctor (1982) Taking the World in for Repairs (1986) Imagine a Woman (1990) Down from Troy: A Doctor Comes of Age (1992; autobiography) Raising the Dead: A Doctor's Encounter with His Own Mortality (1993) What One Man Said to Another: Talks with Richard Selzer (1994; with Peter Josyph) The Doctor Stories (1998) The Exact Location of the Soul: New and Selected Essays (2001) The Whistler's Room: Stories and Essays (2004) Knife Song Korea: A novel (2009)Letters to a Best Friend (2009; with Peter Josyph)Diary (2010)A Richard Selzer Reader: Blood and Ink (2017, editor Kevin Kerrane) Selzer Prize for Writing In 2010, The Abaton, a medical humanities literary and arts journal produced by Des Moines University, awarded the inaugural Selzer Prize for Writing. The award was created to honor Selzer for his contribution to the medical humanities and medical profession as a whole. The award is given annually to a medical student whose essay or story stands out for its quality and humanistic focus. Interviews and profiles Interviews, portraits, and profiles of Selzer include: Faulkner, Donald W. “Richard Selzer, Physician/Writer: A Profile.” Medical Heritage 1.1 (Jan/Feb 1985): 12-9. Flynn, Dale. "Rituals of Writing: An Interview with Richard Selzer." Writing on the Edge 2.l (Fall 1990): 57-68. Josyph, Peter. "Wounded with Wonder: A Talk with Richard Selzer." Studies in Short Fiction 27 (Summer 1990): 321 28. Kushner, Thomasine. "Richard Selzer on Death, Resurrection, and Compassion." Cambridge Quarterly Healthcare Ethics 4.4 (BYC) (Fall 1995): 494-8. Middleton, Faith. “A Surgeon’s Conscience.” Hartford-Courant Northeast. August 28, 1993: 30-33. Poirier, Suzanne. "The Physician and Authority: Portraits by Four Physician Writers." Literature and Medicine 2 (1983): 21 40. Steinberg, Sybil S. "Richard Selzer: The Surgeon/Writer Reflects on Youth in the Depression and His Two Careers." Publishers Weekly 239.36 (10 Aug. 1992): 48-9. Stripling, Mahala Yates. “The Surgeon Storyteller: A Last Interview with Richard Selzer.” Hektoen International: A Journal of Medical Humanities 4.2 (Summer 2012). Literature and medicine movement "It was Richard Selzer," according to Rita Charon, founder of the Narrative Medicine Program at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, "who was among the first physicians to understand the power of writing and reading fiction within medicine. He helped to open up this whole territory to those of us who