Randolph B. Schiffer has lived many lives—Marine, physician, psychotherapist, professor—and now, storyteller.

A graduate of Yale College and the University of Michigan Medical School, Dr. Schiffer’s career spanned both battlefield and brain. He served as a Marine infantry officer during the Vietnam War, led departments in prestigious medical institutions, and co-founded the American Neuropsychiatric Association.

At one time, he was the only physician listed in Best Doctors in America for both adult neurology and psychiatry.

In 2010, he stepped away from medicine to write. His literary voice—measured, unflinching, and strangely tender—blends memory with myth, and mortality with mischief. From their cedar cabin in Bois Blanc Lake, Michigan, he writes in view of the lake that has shaped so many of his stories.

He also resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with his wife, Dr. Lynn S. Bickley, closer to his sons and family in Dallas.