A Few Short Notes on Tropical Butterflies (Magill’s Literary Annual 2004)
At a glance:
- Author: John Murray
- First Published: 2003
- Type of Work: Short fiction
- Time of Work: Late twentieth century
- Setting: India, Africa, and the United States
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Africa or Africans, Twentieth century, Marriage, Science or scientists, Doctors, Immigration or emigration, Death or dying, India or East Indian people
- Locales: Africa, United States, India
An Australian by birth, Dr. John Murray went to the United States in 1990 to study international health at The John Hopkins University, after which he worked in the Epidemic Intelligence Service for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Affected by his experiences traveling to numerous developing countries in Africa and Asia, and convinced that medical doctors are uniquely positioned to become writers because they often hear things that people do not tell anyone else, Murray took time off from the rigors of his work as a medical epidemiologist to endure the quite different...
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