Dr. Chris Adrian

Chris Adrian is a pediatric palliative care physician and a novelist, the author of Gob's Grief, The Children's Hospital, The Great Night and The New World, as well as the story collection A Better Angel. He was named one of The New Yorker's 20 Under 40.

He trained in pediatrics and hematology-oncology and holds a divinity degree from Harvard, and his fiction and clinical work both circle the question of how children and families endure catastrophic illness.