Comments on: Do you know of any fictional authors who are also medical doctors?

By: dana2592

dana2592 — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 03:46:32 +0000

Tess Gerritsen and Michael Palmer

By: Solveiga

Solveiga — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 22:08:12 +0000

Well, besides the well known authors already mentioned, I could tell you about one friend of mine. He was a doctor, 2nd year resident. At the same time, he wrote wonderful short stories, even had one book published. Ive never met such a talented writer before [and after] him. What I know from him, is that medicine gave him alot of inspiration, a lot of ideas what to write about. [And Im talking in past tense cause he died one year ago - had an incurable disease].

I wish you would become a talended bestselling doctor

By: Maryn Bittner

Maryn Bittner — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:27:31 +0000

Michael Crichton has an MD.

By: Angie

Angie — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 10:48:32 +0000

Dr. Robin Cook —— bestselling author of such thrillers as “Coma”, “Godplayer”, “Outbreak” and many others.

By: Persiphone_Hellecat

Persiphone_Hellecat — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 22:05:03 +0000

Kahled Hosseini the author of the Kite Runner is a doctor so is Robin Cook who has written several medical fiction novels. Pax-C

By: Meredith Greene

Meredith Greene — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:17:21 +0000

Indeed, one of my favorite authors, Sir Author Conan Doyle (wrote the sherlock holmes series)

Also, John Keats ( a poet, though… and he really didn’t practice medicine all that much)

Anton Chekov (plays & short stories)

W. Somerset Maugham (novels & plays)

By: Vive

Vive — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 21:09:31 +0000

Yeah, I’ve read a Harvard medical doctor’s info at the back cover of a murder novel. It was about some serial killing in a hospital – must be his own feelings towards his patients on a bad day lol.

I can’t remember the author’s name, though – sorry about that.

So you could put some doctor experience in your novel – maybe a heart surgeon who likes to gouge people’s hearts out (no i’m just kidding)

Good luck with both of your ambitions.

By: Sudeep King of Scorn

Sudeep King of Scorn — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 12:24:15 +0000

A.J.Cronin, James Herriot (vet)