About
Brian Eule is the author of the narrative nonfiction book "Match Day" (St. Martin's Press). He is the Managing Director at PBS FRONTLINE and a visiting scholar at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Formerly, he directed journalism grantmaking at the Heising-Simons Foundation, including leading the American Mosaic Journalism Prize. He is a graduate of Stanford University and earned his MFA from Columbia University. He lives with his wife and daughters in Northern California.
Featured Work
Match Day: One Day and One Dramatic Year in the Lives of Three New Doctors
Each year on the third Thursday in March, more than fifteen thousand graduating medical students exult, despair, and endure Match Day: the result of a computer algorithm that assigns students to their hospital residencies in almost every field of medicine. The match determines the crucial first job as an intern, and ultimately shapes the rest of his--or, in increasing numbers, her--life.
"Like the best of Hollywood awards ceremonies, this book's hook may be what is in those little envelopes; but it's the show that is riveting."
--The New York Times
“Eule is a gifted storyteller with a knack for anecdotes... Required reading for future doctors."
--Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)
Other Works
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Watch Your Words, Professor
2015
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I was Trapped in my own Body
2014
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Economics in Action: The Life-Changing, Nobel-Winning Work of Al Roth
2012
Press and Media Mentions
- A Medical Student’s Rite of Passage-- The New York Times
- 'Match Day' makes med student drama-- Marketplace (NPR)
- Paperback Row-- The New York Times
- Book Review-- New England Journal of Medicine
- Kirkus Review (starred review)
- Authors @ Google: Brian Eule
- Top shelf: Recommended reading-- San Francisco Chronicle
- Brian Eule on his new book Match Day-- 1:2:1 Stanford Medicine Podcast
