Biography:

Physician, medical educator, writer. Born– July 16, 1921, New York, N.Y. (Grew up in Gadsden, where his family moved when he was seven).  Parents–Benjamin and Rose Kahn.  Married– Jane Sherman, June 3, 1943. Children– Three. Education– University of Alabama, A.B., 1941; spent a postgraduate year at UA in Hudson Strode’s creative writing program;  Louisiana State University College of Medicine, M.D., 1945; residency, St. Louis Children’s Hospital. U.S. Army Medical Corps, 1946-1948 (assigned to the VA hospital in Tuscaloosa); practiced pediatrics, 1951-1970; taught, Washington University School of Medicine. Editor of a section in Clinical Pediatrics, 1968-1970; reviewer, American Journal of Public Health, 1975-; authored a number of articles in medical publications.

Source:

Kahn’s curriculum vitae.

Publication(s):

Stonewall ‘Gator. University, Ala.; L. Raines, 1942.

Contributor;

Spring Harvest: A Collection of Stories from Alabama.  Ed. Hudson Strode.  New York; A. A. Knopf, 1944.