Charleston-based Dr. Roger Newman writes medical thrillers AND historical fiction – he’ll be featured on Hutchinson Square with his latest work, Boys: A Novel.

“. . . more than a great read; it is a source of hope.” -John Sexton, New York Times bestselling author of Baseball as a Road to God and president emeritus of New York University
“. . . a dynamic Southern story that teaches hard but redemptive truths.” -Jason Ryan, author of Swamp Kings: The Story of the Murdaugh Family of South Carolina and a Century of Backwoods Power
“. . . courageously offers a narrative grounded in honor and the indelible bonds that transcend the accidents of birth, place, and skin color.” -Greg Fields, author of The Bright Freight of Memory and PEN/Faulkner Award nominee
Brotherhood is more than skin-deep.
After Alex’s family is killed by the Ku Klux Klan during the Great Depression, he takes refuge in the barn of a nearby dairy farm. The family that owns the dairy, including their young son Pete, take in Alex and raise the boys together. Pete and Alex consider themselves brothers and together they navigate the Jim Crow racial intolerance of the rural South, a challenge experienced differently because Pete is White and Alex is Black.
Anticipating European war, Pete and Alex join a segregated US Army. The brothers discover their own identities amid the crucible of battle, leading them to separate for many years as they continue their careers in the Army. They finally reunite at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, in 1969. Confronting escalating racial and civilian hostility in response to the Civil Rights and antiwar movements, Alex must find those responsible for the brutal off-base beating of Pete. He must also reengage with his childhood and what it means to be a Black man with a White brother.

Roger Newman, M.D. is a novelist, academic Maternal-Fetal Medicine specialist and member of the faculty at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC). Dr. Newman is a tenured Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Maas Endowed Chair for Reproductive Sciences. Dr. Newman grew up in Columbia, S.C. and attended Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey. He returned to South Carolina to attend MUSC and stayed in Charleston for his residency training in Ob-Gyn. He followed his residency with a two-year post-doctoral fellowship in Maternal-Fetal Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco and the Cardiovascular Research Institute. Dr. Newman then returned to the academic faculty at MUSC where he continues to practice.
Roger Newman, M.D. is a nationally known leader in Ob-Gyn; selected as one of the “Best Doctors in America” by Woodward and White each year for the past three decades. He has been a South Carolina Chair for the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, President of the South Carolina Ob-Gyn Society and an editor for the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
Dr. Newman is considered an expert on the care of women with twins, triplets or higher-order gestations. He has written the multiple gestation chapters in most of the major Ob-Gyn textbooks and co-authored a book entitled Multifetal Pregnancy: A Handbook for the Care of the Pregnant Patient. Dr. Newman is a co-author with Dr. Barbara Luke and Tamara Eberlein of the best-selling When You’re Expecting Twins, Triplets or Quads.
Roger Newman is married and has three exceptional children. He and his wife Diane live on the Ashley River in Charleston, South Carolina. Besides medicine and writing, his other passion is sports and his other “job” is coaching the women’s varsity basketball team (Raptors) at the Academic Magnet High School, and the Sun Devils at the Charleston Collegiate School. He serves on the executive board of the JLP Foundation working to make year-round basketball education accessible to all student athletes in the Lowcountry, while emphasizing the importance of nutrition and social competency.