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Gene Altman

Gene Altman is the author of The Road Home and Other Stories, a literary short fiction collection and Cityscapes: Intimate Strangers, a photography book with vignettes about the main subject of each photograph. 

Educated at Harvard College and Stanford Medical School, he practiced clinical and forensic psychiatry in Hawaii for forty-two years.

His stories bring a psychiatrist’s insight and a storyteller’s compassion to ordinary people facing loss and other major life challenges.

The Road Home And Other Stories

The Road Home and Other Stories brings together eighteen literary stories about people searching for belonging and meaning in lives shaped by adversity and loss.

Written with the perspective of a psychiatrist and the care of a literary storyteller, the collection follows ordinary people through watershed moments that reveal who they are under pressure and trigger their courage and resolve.

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About The Author

Gene Altman was born in Chicago in 1941 
and attended Harvard College, where he 
majored in Far Eastern languages and literature.

Gene graduated from Stanford Medical School, completed his psychiatry residency, and practiced clinical and forensic psychiatry in Hawaii for 42 years. He is the author of The Road Home and Other Stories and Cityscapes: Intimate Strangers, and lives with his wife, Toni, in Treasure Island, Florida.

About The Author

Gene Altman was born in Chicago in 1941 
and attended Harvard College, where he 
majored in Far Eastern languages and literature.

Gene graduated from Stanford Medical School, completed his psychiatry residency, and practiced clinical and forensic psychiatry in Hawaii for 42 years. He is the author of The Road Home and Other Stories and Cityscapes: Intimate Strangers, and lives with his wife, Toni, in Treasure Island, Florida.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Gene Altman masterfully captures the beauty, complexity, and emotional depth of everyday life through stories that resonate long after the final page.

Is Gene Altman really a psychiatrist?

Yes. Gene Altman practiced clinical and forensic psychiatry in Hawaii for 42 years before turning to fiction. A graduate of Harvard College and Stanford Medical School, he brings that clinical experience to the psychological depth of his stories.
Gene Altman is a graduate of Harvard College and Stanford Medical School. He went on to practice clinical and forensic psychiatry in Hawaii for 42 years.
After a long career understanding how people think, feel, and cope, Gene Altman turned to fiction to explore the inner life in a different way. His stories grow directly out of that lifelong interest in the human mind and heart.
Before his writing, Gene Altman practiced clinical and forensic psychiatry in Hawaii for 42 years. Earlier still, in the 1960s, he worked as a professional street photographer in New York City.
Yes. His four decades in clinical and forensic psychiatry give his characters genuine psychological depth and let him portray difficult inner experiences with accuracy and empathy rather than melodrama.
Yes. Gene Altman belongs to the long tradition of doctors who also write, bringing a clinician’s understanding of the human mind to literary fiction. He practiced psychiatry for 42 years before publishing his stories.
Yes. Interview, media, and event inquiries can be sent through the contact page. His background in psychiatry and photography offers a range of discussion topics.