Randolph B. Schiffer has lived many lives—Marine, physician, psychotherapist, professor—and now, storyteller.
A graduate of Yale College and the University of Michigan Medical School, Dr. Schiffer’s career spanned both battlefield and brain.
He served as a Marine infantry officer during the Vietnam War, led departments in prestigious medical institutions, and co-
founded the American Neuropsychiatric Association.
At one time, he was the only physician listed in Best Doctors in America for both adult neurology and psychiatry.
In 2010, he stepped away from medicine to write. His literary voice—measured, unflinching, and strangely tender—blends memory with myth, and mortality with mischief.
These are not lullabies. They’re the last words we tell—truths disguised as fables. In a father’s fading voice, remembered by his sons, childhood fears return with wit and terror: a dog that hungers, a squirrel that guards unseen doors, a …
Literary Fiction