Island Practice: Cobblestone Rash, Underground Tom, and Other Adventures of a Nantucket Doctor

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Pam Belluck has been a staff writer for the New York Times for more than fifteen years, during which time she has written about everything from cattle rustling to embryo adoption and reported from places as diverse as Medellín, Colombia, and Seongnam, South Korea. She served for more than a decade as national bureau chief, covering some of the biggest stories for the paper and is currently a health and medical writer. She has won several awards, a Knight Fellowship, and a Fulbright Scholarship.

Nathaniel Philbrick is the National Book Award-winning author of In the Heart of the Sea, Revenge of the Whale, Sea of Glory, and others. Philbrick has won numerous awards for his work, including the Massachusetts Book Award, the Albion-Monroe Award, and the New England Book Award; his book Mayflower was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 2007. His book The Last Stand was named an ALA Notable Book and was the basis for a two-hour PBS American Experience film called Custer's Last Stand. A graduate of Duke and Brown Universities, he currently lives in New England.

Joe Barrett, an actor and Audie Award and Earphones Award-winning narrator, has appeared both on and off Broadway as well as in hundreds of radio and television commercials.