Kwei Quartey
Kwei Jones Quartey is a Ghanaian-American detective fiction novelist and a retired physician. For about 20 years, while practising medicine, he also worked as a writer. He balanced both activities by writing in the early mornings before going to his clinic.

Kwei Quartey studied medicine at Howard University in Washington, D.C. He began practising in 1990 with HealthCare Partners in California. While working at the facility as an urgent care physician, he founded the facility's wound care center.

As a writer, he made the "Los Angeles Times" Bestseller List in 2009 for his book "Wife of the Gods". A year later, he was awarded Best Male Author by the G.O.G. National Book Club. He is also a top 100 African American Literature Book Club bestselling author, making the list four times. Kwei Quartey has published a number of novels, and is a member of the Los Angeles branch of the Sisters in Crime, a fiction writers' organization. His 2020 novel, "The Missing American", was shortlisted for the Edgar Allan Poe Best Novel Award.
Q5555460
Ghanaian-American
PER
Q186424
detective fiction
Concept
Q6625963
novelist
Concept
Q39631
physician
Concept
Q1068752
Howard University
ORG
Q61
Washington, D.C.
LOC
Q99
California
LOC
Q188515
Los Angeles Times
MEDIA
Q24963415
Wife of the Gods
MEDIA
Q4649891
African American Literature Book Club
MEDIA
Q65
Los Angeles
LOC
Q2290394
Sisters in Crime
ORG
Q833154
Edgar Allan Poe Best Novel Award
EVE
Q83892349
Kwei Quartey
PER
Q83892349
Kwei Quartey
PER
1990-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1990
DATE
2009-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
2009
DATE
2020-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
2020
DATE
+20^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
20
NUMBER
occupation
educated at
notable work
located in the administrative territorial entity