Richard Barager

Richard Barager is the author of The Atheist and the Parrotfish and Altamont Augie, the latter a winner of the Silver Medal in Foreword Reviews 2011 Book of the Year Awards (Historical Fiction) and a Silver Medal in the Independent Publisher 2012 Regional Book Awards. The Wall Street Journal reviewed Altamont Augie in its Five Best column: “No other novel so crystallizes the themes, flavors and attitudes of an era [the 1960s].”

Richard completed undergraduate studies and medical school at the University of Minnesota and was a nephrologist in private practice for many years. Long devoted to medicine and fiction, he now writes full time (and no longer at night!). He believes fiction explores meaning in ways science cannot. Sometimes only fiction can discover truth.