John Burley

<p>John Burley is the author of <em>The Absence of Mercy</em>, honored with the National Black Ribbon Award; <em>The Forgetting Place</em>; and <em>The Quiet Child</em>. He attended medical school in Chicago and completed his emergency medicine residency at University of Maryland Medical Center and the R. Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore. He continues to serve as an emergency medicine physician in Northern California.</p>