When Breath Becomes Air

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Paul Kalanithi: When Breath Becomes Air (2019, Penguin Random House)

256 pages

English language

Published Jan. 4, 2019 by Penguin Random House.

ISBN:
978-1-5291-1094-4
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When Breath Becomes Air is a non-fiction autobiographical book written by American neurosurgeon Paul Kalanithi. It is a memoir about his life and illness, battling stage IV metastatic lung cancer. It was posthumously published by Random House on January 12, 2016.

29 editions

Subjects

  • Lungs, cancer
  • Cancer, patients, biography
  • Terminally ill, biography
  • Surgeons, biography
  • Husband and wife
  • Physician and patient