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Stephen Bergman
writer, psychiatrist
Samuel Shem, pen name of Stephen Bergman, is a novelist, playwright, essayist, and activist. A graduate of Harvard College and Medical School, and Oxford as a Rhodes scholar, he was on the faculty for 35 years. His novels, *The House of God*, *Fine*, and *Mount Misery* have sold over 3 million copies.