Sonny Saggar is a physician who spent twenty-five years practicing emergency medicine before his life came apart in a single afternoon.
He trained in England, first at Oxford, then at St. Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College in London, and has also run a hospital, briefly.
In 2023 he was indicted, and later incarcerated, and it was inside a federal prison camp that he began writing by hand, first Ground, a short book about what a person keeps once everything else has been taken, and then The Road, a practical guide for anyone moving through the system he has now been through himself, from the first knock on the door to the years of supervised release that follow it.