Stephen A. Geller

Stephen A. Geller

"A Little Piece of Me" is my first novel. A work of fiction, it tells of a young woman who faces life-changing decisions when her little boy develops a lie-threatening liver disease and need a transplant. My second novel, "Wrong Me," is completed and a third novel, "Encores," a sequel to "A Little Piece of Me," is in preparation. I received a Master of Fine Arts (MFA-Writing) degree from the Vermont College of Fine Arts in January, 2018. I have had short stories published and my blog page is at www.stephenageller.com. I was born in Brooklyn, New York and educated in the New York City school system, including Walt Whitman JHS #246, Stuyvesant High School and Brooklyn College. After medical school at Howard University, I was a resident in Pathology at The Mount Sinai Hospital, NY, for four years. After residency I served two years as Chief of Laboratories at the Naval Hospital, Beaufort, S.C. In 1971 I returned to the Mount Sinai School of Medicine where I eventually became professor and vice-chairman. In 1984 I moved to Los Angeles to be chairman of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, a position I held for 22 years. My areas of special expertise are liver pathology, autopsy pathology and the history of pathology and I have published approximately 200 scientific articles, book chapters and monographs. I co-authored a general pathology book (Grundmann and Geller: "Histopathology") and two editions of a liver pathology text (Geller and Petrovic: "Biopsy Interpretation of the Liver"). I now devote myself entirely to creative writing.