Living and Dying in Brick City (31 page)

Dr. Davis is a board-certified emergency medicine physician and co-author of
The New York Times
bestsellers
The Pact, We Beat the Street
, and
The Bond
. The youngest physician to receive the National Medical Association’s highest honor, the Scroll of Merit, he has also received
Essence
and BET humanitarian awards, and was named by
Essence
as one of the forty most inspirational African Americans. He is a founder of The Three Doctors Foundation, focusing on health, education, leadership, and mentoring. Dr. Davis has appeared in various print publications and on numerous national television and radio news and talk shows, including
Oprah
, the
Today
show, and
The View
, and has served as a medical correspondent for CNN and
The Tom Joyner Morning Show
. He practices emergency medicine in New Jersey.

Dr. Davis is available for select readings and lectures. To inquire about a possible appearance, please email
drsamp​sondavis​@​gmail.​com
.

www.​drsampsondavis.​com

L
ISA
F
RAZIER
P
AGE
is a writer living in the New Orleans area. She worked for nearly seventeen years as a reporter and editor at
The Washington Post
and for a decade as a writer at
The Times-Picayune
newspaper in New Orleans.

She was a co-writer of the
New York Times
bestseller
The Pact: Three Young Men Make a Promise and Fulfill a Dream
, published in 2002. She also collaborated with Carlotta Walls LaNier, the youngest member of the Little Rock Nine, on LaNier’s 2009 memoir,
A Mighty Long Way: My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School
.

Page holds a master’s degree from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, and a bachelor’s from Dillard University in New Orleans. She and her husband, Kevin, have four children.