Man Crush Monday: Kwei Quartey

Kwei Quartey is a crime fiction writer and physician who has attained noteworthy achievements in both fields in the past twenty years.
Dr. Quartey balances the two professions by dedicating the early morning hours to writing before beginning a day in his clinic.

Kwei Quartey attended medical school at Howard University in Washington, D.C. In 1993, he began practicing medicine in California with HealthCare Partners. Dr. Quartey later founded the facility's wound care center while working as an urgent care physician.

As a crime fiction writer, Kwei Quartey made the Los Angeles Times Bestseller List in 2009.
His first two novels in the Inspector Darko Dawson series, Wife of the Gods and Children of the Street, were published in 2009 and 2011, respectively. The third, Murder at Cape Three Points, was published in 2014. Death at the Voyager Hotel, a mystery e-novella not belonging to the series, was published in July 2013.

Dr. Quartey is a member of the Los Angeles chapter of Sisters in Crime, a fiction writers’ organization. He writes about Ghana and sub-Saharan Africa for the online publication Foreign Policy in Focus, and has been a guest columnist for the Huffington Post.

Kwei Quartey stands out as our Man Crush Monday for his outstanding creative abilities and efforts at giving back through his medical practice.