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Kwei Quartey is a crime fiction writer and physician based in Pasadena, California.

In , having practiced medicine for more than 15 years while simultaneously working as a writer, Quartey finally retired from medical practice to become a full-time novelist. Prior to that, though, he had balanced the two professions by dedicating the early morning hours to writing before beginning each day in his clinic. Quartey was born in Ghana, West Africa, to a Ghanaian father and black American mother, both of whom were lecturers at the University of Ghana.

By then, Quartey was certain he wanted to be an author. But his interests shifted by the time he was a teenager, when he decided he wanted to be a doctor. Quartey began on a science-to-medicine track in secondary school. By then, Quartey had already begun medical school in Ghana. After graduation from his residency training in Internal Medicine, Kwei Quartey returned to his love of writing.

He went to a UCLA extension course in creative writing, and wrote two novels while in a writing group that met every Wednesday evening. But it would be a few years yet before Quartey would create the Inspector Darko Dawson series.

Kwei Jones Quartey is a Ghanaian–American detective fiction novelist and retired physician.

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