July 2013
EW IN OTHER NEWS
Ophthalmologist and
researcher turned novelist
by Vanessa Caceres EyeWorld Contributing Writer
Award-winning books
focus on international
historical adventures
I
n his day job, Steven E.
Wilson, MD, is professor of
ophthalmology and director
of corneal research at Cole Eye
Institute, Cleveland Clinic,
Cleveland—basically, he's an ophthalmologist and research scientist.
If you were trading surgical
pearls with him at a conference, you
might not realize he's also an awardwinning author of three published
adventure thrillers.
Dr. Wilson published his first
book in 2003, "Winter in Kandahar."
Set in Afghanistan, "Winter in
Kandahar" is an "epic adventure of
love, betrayal, and war," according
to ForeWord Reviews. The book also
focuses on the eternal struggle between the Tajik and Pashtun groups
in that country. It went on to receive
the Benjamin Franklin Award, Finalist for Best New Voice in Fiction.
After writing "Winter in Kandahar," Dr. Wilson wrote the 656-page
"Ascent from Darkness," which was
an Indie Book Award Finalist in
Action and Adventure 2008. That
book focuses on a CIA agent who
joins U.S. forces and Iraqi peasants
to fight against Saddam Hussein.
"The thriller unfolds like a motion
picture, complete with forbidden
romance, desperate Special Forces
operations, and a never-say-die
love of country," according to
Amazon.com.
In 2010, he published the 454page "The Ghosts of Anatolia: An
Epic Journey to Forgiveness," which
chronicles the relationship between
an Armenian family and two Turkish
families joined together in 1914 at
the start of World War I. Yet more
awards came, with the ForeWord
Reviews Book of the Year Gold
Award in Fiction in 2010 and the
Runner-up Award in General Fiction
at the Hollywood Book Festival in
2011.
Dr. Wilson described all of his
books as "faction." "They are based
on real events with my characters'
stories interwoven in what has
occurred in Afghanistan, Syria and
Iraq, and the Ottoman Empire and
Syria," he said. He also compares the
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