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Physician writers are physicians who write creatively in fields outside their practice of medicine.. The following is a partial list of physician-writers by historic epoch or century in which the author was born, or published their first non-medical piece, arranged in alphabetical order.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (/ h oʊ m z /; August 29, 1809 – October 7, 1894) was an American physician, poet, and polymath based in Boston. Grouped among the fireside poets, he was acclaimed by his peers as one of the best writers of the day.
Deepak Chopra - Indian/American writer of self-help and health books; Alex Comfort (1920–2000) - British writer and poet, author of The Joy of Sex; Ctesias (5th century B.C.) - Greek historian; Steven Clark Cunningham (born 1972) - children's poem writer; Erasmus Darwin (1731–1802) - British poet, grandfather of Charles Darwin
Archibald Joseph Cronin (19 July 1896 – 6 January 1981), known as A. J. Cronin, was a Scottish physician and novelist. [2] His best-known novel is The Citadel (1937), about a Scottish physician who serves in a Welsh mining village before achieving success in London, where he becomes disillusioned about the venality and incompetence of some doctors.
Richard Gordon (born Gordon Stanley Benton, 15 September 1921 – 11 August 2017, also known as Gordon Stanley Ostlere), [1] was an English ship's surgeon and anaesthetist.As Richard Gordon, Ostlere wrote numerous novels, screenplays for film and television and accounts of popular history, mostly dealing with the practice of medicine.
George A. Sheehan (November 5, 1918 – November 1, 1993) was an American physician, senior athlete, and author best known for his writings about the sport of running.His book, "Running & Being: The Total Experience", became a New York Times best seller. [1]
Samuel Johnson (18 September [O.S. 7 September] 1709 – 13 December 1784), often called Dr Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, sermonist, biographer, editor, and lexicographer.
Most of Doyle's family including his mother were aware of the relationship, but it appears to have remained unknown to Louisa. [20] Jean outlived her husband and died during wartime on 27 June 1940. [66] Doyle fathered five children. He had two with his first wife: Mary Louise (1889–1976) and Arthur Alleyne Kingsley, known as Kingsley (1892 ...