Andrew I Schafer

Andrew Schafer was born in Budapest and at the age of nine escaped with his

family to the west following the collapse of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. He

received his B.S. from Northeastern University, and was educated and trained in

medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, University of Chicago, and Harvard. He

has become one of the most distinguished hematologists in the world, and

continues to be fully engaged in clinical practice, research, and education of the

next generations of medical students and advanced trainees at Cornell Medical

College.

Among his many professional honors has been election to the presidencies of the

American Society of Hematology, the Association of Professors of Medicine, the

American Clinical and Climatological Association, and the National Academy of

Medicine. He has been chairman of three departments of medicine: Baylor, the

University of Pennsylvania, and Cornell and served as physician-in-chief of their

major teaching hospitals. While he has edited or written several major textbooks

of medicine and authored 250 original scientific publications in major medical

journals, Unclean Hands is his first foray into historical fiction.

Dr. Schafer lives in New York City (and also Annapolis, Maryland) with his wife of

50 years, Pauline. He is the proud father of three wonderful children, Erica, Pam,

and Kate, and six even more wonderful grandchildren, Evan, Samantha, Nathaniel,

Patrick, Caroline, and Meghan. As he has said many times, “if I knew my

grandchildren would be this much fun, I would have had them first.” His hobbies

include opera, sports of any kind, especially soccer, world history, Broadway plays

and musicals, and travel to new places.