Atul Gawande is the author of four bestselling books:Complications, a finalist for the National Book Award;Better;The Checklist Manifesto; andBeing Mortal. He is also a surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, a staff writer forThe New Yorker, and a professor at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health. He has won the Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science, a MacArthur Fellowship, and two National Magazine Awards. In his work in public health, he is Founder and Chair of Ariadne Labs, a joint center for health systems innovation, and Lifebox, a nonprofit organization making surgery safer globally. He is also chair of Haven, where he was CEO from 2018–2020. He and his wife have three children and livein Newton, Massachusetts.

William David Griffith narrated Atul Gawande'sComplications, which won anAudioFile Earphones award, as well as Sidney Kirkpatrick'sEdgar Cayce and Douglas Rushkoff'sCoercion, all published by Macmillan Audio. Of William's performance inComplications,AudioFile magazine said, "The sea of scientific and medical terms poses no problem for the charming and animated William David Griffith, who is a skilled complement to an audiobook not to be missed by general readers interested in medicine."

“None surpass Gawande in the ability to create a sense of immediacy, in his power to conjure the reality of the ward, the thrill of the moment-by-moment medical and surgical drama. Complications impresses for its truth and authenticity, virtues that it owes to its author being as much forceful writer as uncompromising chronicler.” —The New York Times Book Review

“No one writes about medicine as a human subject as well as Atul Gawande. His stories about becoming a surgeon are scary, funny, absorbing....Complicationsis a uniquely soulful book about the science of mending bodies.” —Adam Gopnik, author of Paris to the Moon

“Gawande is arguably the best nonfiction doctor-writer around....He's prescient and thoughtful...the heir to Lewis Thomas' humble, insightful and brilliantly crafted oeuvre.” —Salon.com