Biographical Information on Physician Writers
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Lewis Thomas
1913-1993
A 1937 M.D. graduate of Harvard University, Thomas did further study in neurology, then began an illustrious career involving professorships in biology, pediatrics, medicine, and pathology; as well as service as department chief, medical school dean, and president of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.  He served on countless boards and committees, and received many awards including honorary degrees, and the National and American Book Awards. Joyce Carol Oates had this to say about Lives of a Cell:

One might as well rise to the higher speculation that [this book] anticipates the kind of writing that will appear more and more frequently, as scientists take on the language of poetry in order to communicate human truths too mysterious for old-fashioned common sense.


Background
Contemporary Authors

NonFiction
The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher (1974)
The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher (1979)
Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony (1983)
The Youngest Science (1983)
Quartet - Essays by Lewis Thomas (1986)
Et Cetera, Et Cetera (1990)
The Fragile Species (1992)

Poetry
Could I Ask You Something? (1984)

Francis Orray Ticknor
1822-1874
Ticknor received his medical degree from the Philadelphia College of Medicine in 1843, and subsequently worked as a country doctor in Georgia.  During the Civil War he supervised a Confederate hospital.

Background
McDonough ML. Poet-Physicians: An Anthology of Medical Poetry Written by Physicians. Springfield: Charles C. Thomas; 1945.

Poetry
Poems of Francis Orray Ticknor (1911)


John Todhunter
1839-1916
While a student at Trinity College Medical School, Dublin, Todhunter was clinical clerk to the famous William Stokes; and also won the Vice-chancellor's Prize in English Literature three times.  He received the M.B. degree in 1967, and the M.D. degree in 1871, between which accomplishments he became Professor of English Literature at Alexandra College, Dublin.  He did further medical study in Europe and was appointed Visiting Physician to Cork Street Fever Hospital; but after the publication and favorable reception of his essay "A Theory of the Beautiful" in 1872, and because of poor health, he gave up the practice of medicine to concentrate entirely on the writing of essays, poetry, and plays, and translating.

Background
Rolleston TW, introduction to From the Land of Dreams. Dublin: The Talbot Press; 1918.

Poetry
Laurella and Other Poems (1876)
The Banshee and Other Poems (1888)
Three Irish Bardic Tales (1896)
From the Land of Dreams (1918)

NonFiction
Life of Sarsfield (1895)
Essays (1920)

Drama
Isolt of Ireland/The Poison Flower (1927)

Saul Tschernichowsky
1875-1943
Tschernichowsky (sometimes written Tchernichowsky or Tchernichovsky) published his first book of poetry in 1898, and studied medicine from 1899 through 1903 in Heidelberg.  In Switzerland he did further study of pediatrics, which he practiced later in Russia and Palestine.  For his work as military physician during the first world war, he was decorated by the Russian government. The remainder of his rather nomadic life was spent on writing, translating, editing, and some medical practicing, none of which afforded him an adqueate living:

As to my practice: some people don't know that I am a doctor; and those who know that I am a medical man imagine that I am getting rich on Hebrew literature; while those that ply the literary trade think that I am getting rich on medicine.

He died and was buried in Tel Aviv.

Background
Silberschlag E. Saul Tschernichowsky: Poet of Revolt. Ithaca: Cornell University Press; 1968.

Poetry
Silberschlag E. Saul Tschernichowsky: Poet of Revolt. Ithaca: Cornell University Press; 1968.
Anthology of Modern Hebrew Poetry. Jerusalem: Hebrew Universities Press; 1966)

 

Leonid Tsypkin
1926-1982
After graduating from medical school in Minsk in 1947, Tsypkin specialized in pathology, pursuing research at the Institute for Poliomyelitis and Viral Encephalitis, Moscow. Fearful of the KGB, he kept Summer in Baden-Baden to himself until it was smuggled out of the Soviet Union in 1981. Dying of a coronary the following year, Tsypkin did not live to see its publication, and the book did not receive wide appreciation until a translation appeared in the United States in 2001.

Background
Susan Sontag, “Loving Dostoyesvsky, New Yorker, October 1, 2001

Fiction
Summer in Baden-Baden (1981, 2001)

Gael Turnbull
1928-
Though born in Scotland, Turnbull grew up in England and Canada, and received his M.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1951. He has worked as a general practitioner and anesthetist in Canada, the United States, and England.  One of the original contributors, along with Charles Olson, Louis Zukovsky, Robert Duncan, and Denise Levertov, to the Black Mountain Review, he founded Migrant Press in England in 1957; and has written many very short volumes of poetry, some of which are included in the collections listed below.

Background
Vinson J, ed. Contemporary Poets, 3rd ed. New York: St. Martin's Press; 1980.

Poetry
A Trampoline: Poems 1952-1964 (1968)
Scantlings: Poems 1964-1969 (1970)
A Gathering of Poems: 1950-1980 (1983)

 

Leonard Tushnet
1908-1973
Tushnet graduated from New York University with an M.D. degree in 1932.  From then until 1966 he ran a general practice in New Jersey, except for military service during World War II. Though most of his writing has been nonfiction, one of his stories was included in Best American Short Stories of 71.

Background
Contemporary Authors

NonFiction
To Die With Honor: The Uprising of the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto (1965)
The Pavement of Hell: Three Leaders of the Judenrat  (1973)


Henry Vaughan
1622-1695
"The Silurist" (so named for the Silures, the Welsh tribe from which his family descended) initially studied law, and what medical training he had is not known. From 1650 until his death he practiced medicine in Newton-by-Usk, and his entire literary output occurred between 1646 and 1657.  Unread for years, he was finally recognized for his "metaphysical" genius in the twentieth century by such critics as Edmund Blunden and T.S. Eliot.

Background
Encyclopedia Britannica, 15th. ed.
Hutchinson FE. Henry Vaughan: A Life and Interpretation. Oxford: The Clarendon Press; 1947. WORKS - Martin LC, ed. The Works of Henry Vaughan, 2nd. ed. Oxford: The Clarendon Press; 1957.


Abraham Verghese
1955-
Born in Ethiopia, Verghese received his M.D. degree from the Madras Medical College (India) in 1980. He then did internal medicine and infectious disease training in the United States, became professor of medicine and chief of infectious diseases at Texas Tech Health Sciences Center in El Paso, and a fellow of numerous specialty colleges and societies. Influenced, he has said, by Somerset Maugham, he has contributed pieces to numerous literary journals in addition to writing the unique books listed below; and along the way earned an M.F.A. at the University of Iowa in 1991. My Own Country was reviewed in The New York Times Book Review by Perri Klass (August 28, 1994). 

NonFiction
My Own Country : A Doctor's Story of a Town and Its People in the Age of AIDS (1994)
The Tennis Player: A Doctor's Story of Friendship and Loss (1998)


Arturo Vivante
1923-
Vivante was born in Italy, where he earned a medical degree (University of Rome, 1949). From 1950 through 1958 he practiced general medicine in Rome, and produced a book of poetry (Poesie, 1951).  He then emigrated to the United States to write full time, contributing stories regularly to The New Yorker and other magazines, writing novels, translating, and serving as writer-in-residence at several universities.

Background
Contemporary Authors

Fiction
A Goodly Babe (1966)
The French Girls of Killini (1967)
Dr. Giovanni (1969)
English Stories (1975)
Run to the Waterfall (1979)
The Tales of Arturo Vivante (1990)

Translation
Giacomo Leopardi: Poems Translated with an Introduction by Arturo Vivante (1988)
Italian Poetry: An Anthology, from the Beginnings to the Present (1996) NonFiction Writing Fiction (1980)


Karl Edward Wagner
1945-1994
Wagner (whose great- great- great-uncle was Richard) earned an M.D. degree at the University of North Carolina in 1974, began a psychiatric residency, but in 1975 gave up his medical career to devote himself full time to the fantasy and horror fiction field. He founded the Carcosa publishing house; and for years edited the anthology The Year's Best Horror Stories.  Only some of his writings are listed below.

Background
Contemporary Authors

Fiction
Darkness Weaves with Many Shades... (1970)
Death Angel's Shadow (1973)
Midnight Sun (1974)
Bloodstone (1975)
The Road of Kings: Conan (1979)
In a Lonely Place (1983)
The Book of Kane (1985)
Why Not You and I? (1987)

 

George Walton
1887-1963
After military service in World War I, Walton studied medicine at the University of Toronto, receiving his Bachelor of Medicine degree in 1923. He practiced for several years, then did further training in public health, and became Medical Officer of Health for Regina City from 1936 through 1962.

Background
Jackson FI. George Walton MB DPH 1887-1963: prairie physician-poet. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. 1991; 84: 110-11.

Poetry
The Wayward Queen (1959)


H. David Watts
?-
Watts received his MD degree from Baylor College of Medicine in 1966. A professor of medicine in the gastroenterology department at University of California at San Francisco, he has also been an NPR contributor (“All Things Considered”) and founded the Writing the Medical Experience summer program at Sarah Lawrence College.

Background
Contemporary Authors

Fiction
Bedside Manners: One Doctor's Reflections on the Oddly Intimate Encounters between
Patient and Healer (2005)

Poetry
Taking the History (1999)


Edward Willard Watson
1843-1925
Watson received his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1865, and practiced thereafter in Philadelphia.

Background
McDonough ML. Poet-Physicians: An Anthology of Medical Poetry Written by Physicians. Springfield: Charles C. Thomas; 1945.

Poetry
Today and Yesterday (1895)
Songs of Flying Hours (1898)
Old Lamps and New, and Other Verse (1905)
If Love Were King, and Other Poems (1915)


Richard S. Weeder
1936-
Weeder received his M.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1962, and also holds a bachelor's degree in religion from Princeton University.  A surgeon, he is director of the division of general surgery at Hunterdon Medical Center in New Jersey. Although Surgeon may be autobiography, I have classified it as fiction because, as Weeder insists in the preface, "nothing happened just the way I wrote it."

Fiction
Surgeon: The View from behind the Mask (1988)


Howard L. Weiner
1944-
A 1969 University of Colorado M.D. graduate, Weiner is Professor of Neurologic Diseases at Harvard University and co-director of the Center for Neurologic Diseases at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. His research interest has been multiple sclerosis, and he has written a number of  neurologic texts in addition to the fiction below.

Background
Contemporary Authors

Fiction
The Children's Ward (1980)

Ernst Weiss
1882-1940
As a student in Prague,Weiss knew Kafka, with whom he remained friends, and was influenced by Arthur Schnitzler. He graduated from the Unversity of Vienna with a medical degree in 1908, specializing in surgery. In spite of contracting tuberculosis, he worked as a ship's doctor in 1912 and 1913, traveling to the Far East; and during the first world war served as a military doctor on the eastern front. He died by his own hand in Paris in 1940 as the Nazis entered the city. Unfortunately, not many of his works have been translated into English.

Background
Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 81 Fiction The Aristocrat (1928, trans. 1994)
The Eyewitness (1977)


Gerald Weissman
1930-
Weissmann was born in Austria and became a United States citizen in 1943. He received his M.D. degree form New York University in 1954, did a medical residency at Bellevue Hospital (where Lewis Thomas was director at the time), and has specialized in rheumatology.  A professor of medicine at his alma mater, he spends part of his time doing basic research in inflammation at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. He is a member of many of his specialty's societies and organizations; and has received not only numerous awards for his scientific research, but considerable recognition for his writing.

Background
Contemporary Authors

NonFiction
The Woods Hole Cantata: Essays on Science and Society (1985)
They All Laughed at Christopher Columbus: Tales of Medicine and the Art of Discovery (1987)
The Doctor with Two Heads (1990)
Doctor Dilemma (1992)
Democracy and DNA: American Dreams and Medical Progress (1995)
Darwin's Audubon: Science and the Liberal Imagination - New and Selected Essays (1998)


David Wheldon
1950-
Wheldon graduated M.B., Ch.B. from Bristol University in 1973, then worked as house surgeon in Yeovil and house physician at Frenchay Hospital and Cossham Hospital. He specialized in pathology, becoming senior registrar in medical microbiology at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford.  From 1980 through his retirement from full-time medical work in 1991, he served as Consultant in Medical Microbiology at Bedford Hospital.

Background
http://www.berkeleyaneye.fsbusiness.co.uk

Fiction
The Viaduct (1982)
Onesimus (1997)
The Course of Instruction (1998)
Days and Orders (1998)

Poetry
The Uncompliant Stranger (1997)
The Present Perennial (?)
Language in a Narrow Place (1998)
Night Altitude (1999)


Allen B. Wheelis
1915-
Wheelis earned is M.D. degree from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1943, and was certified in psychiatry in 1943.  He has practiced in San Francisco, and written many books, only a few of which are listed below.

Fiction
Doctor of Desire: A Novel (1987)
Way Things Are: A Novel (1994)

NonFiction
Illusionless Man; Fantasies and Meditations (1966)
Life and Death of My Mother (1992)
Listener: A Psychoanalyst Examines His Life (1999)

Phil Whitaker
1966-
Born in 1966, Whitaker qualified in medicine from Nottingham University Medical School in 1990. In addition to his work as a general practitioner and forensic medical examiner, he is a book reviewer for the New Statesman, and a novelist.

Fiction
Eclipse of the Sun (1997)
Triangulation (1999)
The Face (2002)

Christopher E. Wiggins
1946-
Wiggins graduated from the University School of Medicine in 1971 and pursued further training in orthopedic surgery.  He presently practices in Pascagoula, Mississippi.

Background
www.bloodfeud.net

Fiction  
Blood Feud (2000)

 


Michael Wigglesworth
1631-1675
Born in England, Wigglesworth emigrated to America in 1638.  He graduated from Harvard in 1651, and served as pastor in Malden, Massachusetts.  He also "practiced medicine," though what his medical credentials were, I'm not yet sure.

Background
Encyclopedia Britannica, 15th ed.
Malone D, ed. Dictionary of American Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons; 1936.

Poetry
Bosco RA, ed. Poems of Michael Wigglesworth (1989)
Day of Doom, or, A Poetical Description of the Great and Last Judgement (1991)

NonFiction
Morgan ES, ed. Diary of Michael Wigglesworth, 1653-1657; The Conscience of a Puritan (1970)


William Carlos Williams
1883-1963
Trite though it may be to say, Williams remains the ultimate physician writer - a life-long practicing physician, who wrote prolifically in all the major genres, encouraged the literary careers of many of his contemporaries, is recognized as a significant figure in modern American literature, and is still actually read. A 1906 medical graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, he interned, studied briefly in Europe, then opened a general practice in Rutherford, New Jersey, which he maintained until ill health forced his retirement in 1948. He was a friend of many of the artists and writers of his time, from Ezra Pound and Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) from the U Penn years, to Louis Zukofsky and Allen Ginsberg; and, after tardy recognition, recipient of many honors during his life (National Book Award, Consultantship in Poetry at the Library of Congress, Bollingen Award, to mention a few) and posthumously (Pulitzer and Gold Medal for Poetry). Only a few of his many volumes are listed below.

Background
Whittemore R. William Carlos Williams: Poet from New Jersey. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company; 1975
Mariani P. William Carlos Williams: A New World Naked. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company; 1981.

Fiction
The Great American Novel (1923)
White Mule (1937)
In the Money (1940)
The Build-Up (1952)
The Farmer's Daughters: The Collected Stories of William Carlos Williams (1961)

Poetry
The Collected Later Poems (1950)
The Collected Earlier Poems (1951)
Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems (1962)
Paterson (1963) NonFiction In the American Grain (1925)
The Autobiography of William Carlos Williams (1951)
Selected Essays of William Carlos Williams (1954)
The Selected Letters of William Carlos Williams (1957)
I Wanted to Write a Poem: The Autobiography of the Works of a Poet (1958)
The Embodiment of Knowledge (1974)

Drama
Many Loves and Other Plays: The Collected Plays of William Carlos Williams (1961)


Timothy Willocks
1957-
Willocks studied medicine at University College Hospital Medical School in London, graduating M.B., B.S. in 1983.  After working as a pediatrician and surgeon, he specialized in psychiatry and the treatment of addiction. In addition to his fiction, he has written and produced films.

Fiction
Bad City Blues (?)
Green River Rising (1994)
Bloodstained Kings (1995)

Screenplays
Sweet Angel Mine (1996)
Swept from the Sea: The Shooting Script (1997)
Bad City Blues (1999)


F. Paul Wilson
1946-
Wilson graduated from Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine with a D.O. degree in 1973, did a flexible year, and opened a family medicine practice in New Jersey in 1974. Since 1976 he has produced numerous stories and at least twenty five novels and story collections, only some of which are listed below. His writing has won many science fiction awards; and The Keep was made into a film in 1983.

Background
Contemporary Authors Fiction Healer (1976)
The Keep (1981)
The Tomb (1984)
Reborn (1990)
Select (1994)
Barrens and Others (1998)


Hunter Wilson
1927-
After graduating from Johns Hopkins University with an M.D. degree in 1953, Wilson specialized in internal medicine and endocrinology.  He has practiced in Baltimore since 1959.

Fiction
In My Father's House (1992)

 

John Rowan Wilson
1919-
Wilson studied medicine at Leeds University, trained as a surgeon, and gained his F.R.C.S. in 1951.  In 1954 he became the U.K. Medical Director for Lederle Laboratories and was involved with live poliomyelitis vaccine trials, work which formed the basis for his 1963 account, Margin of Safety: The Story of Poliomyelitis Vaccine. In 1962 he became assistant editor of the British Medical Journal.

Fiction
Bed of Thorns (1954)
Every Secret Thing (1955)
Round Voyage (1957)
Means to an End (1959)
Double Blind (1960)
Hall of Mirrors (1966)
Side of the Angels (1968)
Barrington (1971)


Martin Winckler

1955-
Winckler earned his MD degree in 1977 (? school) but retired after several years of general practice to devote himself to his writing. He has translated English works (Richard Powers and others) into French, and a film version of The Case of Dr. Sachs won first prize at the 2001 Chicago Film Festival.

Background
Contemporary Authors

Fiction
La Maladie de Sachs (The Case of Dr. Sachs) (1998)


Jon Wolcott
1738-1819
Wolcott studied medicine at Aberdeen, Scotland, and in 1767 went to Jamaica as physician to the Governor. In 1772 he returned to England to practice in Cornwall until 1781, when he settled in London. Failing vision put an end to his medical career, but, under his penname, Peter Pindar, he continued to aim his satirical verse at targets as large as Dr. Johnson and George III.

Background
Encyclopedia Britannica, 15th ed.

Poetry
Works of Peter Pindar (5 vol.). AMS Press.
Zall PM, ed. Peter Pindar's Poems. Bath, England: Adams & Dart; 1972.


Charlotte Wolff
1904-
Born in Germany, Wolff earned her M.D. degree from the University of Berlin in 1928. She subsequently emigrated to England, where she began a psychiatric practice in 1951, specializing in problems relating to female homosexuality.

Background
Contemporary Authors

Fiction
An Older Love (1976)

NonFiction
On the Way to Myself: Communications to a Friend (1969)


Charles H. Wright
1918-
A 1943 graduate of Meharry Medical College, Wright did further training in pathology and then obstetrics and gynecology before opening a practice in the latter field in Detroit in 1953 (voted "Doctor of the Year" by the Detroit Medical Society in 1966). In addition, Wright has performed medical surveys in several West African countries, and founded the African Medical Education Fund and the Afro-American Museum of Detroit; and was actively involved in the civil rights movements in Selma, Alabama, and Bogalusa, Louisiana. In addition to the books below, he has written several plays, but I have not found that they have been published.

Background
Contemporary Authors NonFiction Robeson: Labor's Forgotten Champion (1975)
Peace Advocacy of Paul Robeson (1984)


Irvin D. Yalom
1931-
Yalom attended Boston University School of Medicine, from which he graduated in 1956.  After further psychiatric training he began a psychiatric practice, and rose to the position of professor of psychiatry at Stanford University Medical Center. Over the years, Yalom has been recognized for his medical as well as his literary achievements, receiving the Edward Strecker Award for significant contribution to the field of psychiatric patient care, and the Commonwealth Award for Best Fiction for When Nietzsche Wept.

Background
Contemporary Authors

Fiction
Love's Executioner & Other Tales of Psychotherapy (1989)
When Nietzsche Wept (1992)
Lying on the Couch (1996)


V. S. Yanovsky
1906-1989
Born in Russia, Yanovsky emigrated to France at the time of the Russian Revolution, and received his M.D. degree from the Sorbonne in 1937.  Five years later he moved to the United States where he practiced medicine (anesthesiology) and continued writing.

Background
Contemporary Authors

Fiction
No Man's Time (1967)
Of Light and Sounding Brass (1972)
The Great Transfer (1974)

NonFiction
The Dark Fields of Venus: From a Doctor's Logbook (1973)
Medicine, Science, and Life (1978)
Elysian Fields (1987)


C. Dale Young
1969-
Gale received an MFA degree from the University of Florida in 1993, then an MD in 1997. In addition to his medical practice, he is poetry editor of the New England Review and teaches in the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers (North Carolina).

Background
http://www.cdaleyoung.com/

Poetry
The Day Underneath the Day (2001)
The Second Person (2007)

Francis Brett Young
1884-1954
Young graduated M.B., Ch.B. from Birmingham University in 1907. He opened a practice in Devon, and began writing novels. During service with the Royal Army Medical Corps in East Africa, however,  he became ill, and subsequently gave up his practice to write, first on Capri, then back in England. In 1950 he was awarded the honorary D. Litt. degree by the University of Birmingham. Only a few of his many books are listed below.

Background
Williams ET, Palmer HM, eds. The Dictionary of National Biography 1951-60. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 1971.

Fiction
The Dark Tower (1914)
The Young Physician (1919)
Portrait of Clare (1927)
My Brother Jonathan (1928)
They Seek a Country (1937)
Dr. Bradley Remembers (1938)
A Man About the House (1942)

Poetry
Poems 1916-1918 (1919)
The Island (1944)

 


George Young
?-
Young graduated from the University of Southern California School of Medicine in 1963, and is a rheumatologist in Colorado. His chapbook Creating the Universe won Perivale Press's Ninth Annual Poetry Chapbook Contest, and Spinoza's Mouse won the 1996 Word Works Washington Prize.
Poetry Spinoza's Mouse (1996)


Michael Baruch Zach
1943-
Zach graduated from Tufts University School of Medicine in 1968, did further training in internal medicine and pulmonology.  He is Director of Pulmonary Medicine at Malden Hospital in Massachusetts, and also Director of Research in Pulmonary Medicine for Ambu International, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Background
http://members.aol.com/MBZack/index.html

Poetry
Bent Knee (1996)
Morning Glory (1998)

Fiction
Oxymoron (1971)

 

Marc Zaffran
1955-
Born in Algeria in 1955, Zaffran moved to France in 1962 and eventually received his MD degree in 1982 (?institution).  He did a general practice in a small town in France from 1983 until 1994 when he cut back to part time work in order to devote more time to writing.  The Case of Doctor Sachs has been made into a film which may be released in the US.

Background
Massarotti EM. Book Review - The Case of Doctor Sachs. NEJM. 2001;344; No. 10.

Fiction
La Vacation (1989)
The Case of Doctor Sachs (French 1997, English translation 2000)


Hans Zinsser
1878-1940
A 1903 graduate of Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons (M.A. and M.D.), Zinsser became a bacteriologist, doing seminal work in the study of typhus and immunology during his career. For his contributions as a member of the Red Cross Typhus Commission and officer in the U.S. Army Medical Corps during World War I, he received the Distinguished Service Medal and the French Legion of Honor. He became the Charles Wilder Professor of Bacteriology at Harvard in 1925, and his Textbook of Bacteriology was standard for years.

Background
Contemporary Authors

NonFiction
Rats, Lice, and History (1935)
As I Remember Him: The Biography of R.S. (1940)

Poetry
Spring, Summer and Autumn (1942)


Wolf W. Zuelzer
1909-1987
After study in Germany and Paris, Zuelzer earned an M.D. degree from the German University of Prague in 1935, and moved to the United States that same year. He became a pathologist, specializing in hematology and pediatric pathology, and received, in 1949, the Mead Johnson Award from the American Academy of Pediatrics for discovery of megaloblastic anemia of childhood.

Background
Contemporary Authors

NonFiction
The Nicolai Case: A Biography (1982)