George B. Longstreth MD

Born and raised in Fairfield, Connecticut, George B. Longstreth, MD earned his medical doctorate from the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University in 1965. Spending six years in New York City, first in Spanish Harlem, then in Hell's Kitchen, he lived among many of the characters and events that he now uses in his novels. After a surgical stint in the US Navy, followed by ten years in rural northwest Connecticut, George and his wife Betsy enjoyed an active surgical practice in Fairfield during the 1980s and '90s. This included on-call rotations to the Emergency Room at near-by Bridgeport Hospital, where an unhealthy sampling of the drug-world underbelly came for urgent care. The couple also traveled to Haiti and Ecuador to help provide surgical care in rural villages, and in 1999 they started an ongoing Free Surgical Camp in Khammam, India devoted to the poorest of the poor. On all these adventures George added many more characters and tales to the fuel of fiction. Check out his John Pullman, MD series - "You Call Me Roc", and "You Call Me Angelo"

Betsy and George now live in active retirement in Kennebunkport, Maine, where they are kept busy by family (including 19 grandchildren), friends, unusual characters and happenings, and a dog named Jane.