Jack Schwartzwald

Jack Schwartzwald, North Kingstown, R.I. is a hospitalist physician at South County Hospital in Wakefield, R.I., and a clinical assistant professor of medicine at Brown University’s Alpert Medical School. He earned his history degree from North Texas and says history remains his lifelong passion. His new book, Nine Lives of Israel (McFarland J. Kirby McDonough Co.), chronicles Israel’s history through the lives of nine of its leading citizens and founders. The original manuscript won third prize in UNT's 2009 Mayborn Writing Competition.