page_title: Physician writer
section_title: 20th century
hierarchical_section_title: Physician writer / 20th century
caption_attribution_description: English: Carl Gustav JungΕλληνικά: Καρλ Γκουστάβ Γιουγκ
context_page_description: 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, arranged in alphabetical order.
context_section_description: Kōbō Abe (1924–1993) Japanese author known for his surrealistic, Kafkaesque style
  Keith Ablow, New York Times best-selling author
  Dannie Abse (born 1923) Welsh chest specialist who is also one of Europe's most prolific doctor-poets
  Vassily Aksyonov (1932–2009) Russian novelist who was forced to emigrate from the Soviet Union in 1980
  António Lobo Antunes (born 1942) psychiatrist and leading Portuguese writer
  Jacob M. Appel (born 1973), American short story writer
  Daniel Amen, psychiatrist, New York Times author
  Janet Asimov (born 1926, Janet Opal Jeppson) American science fiction author and psychoanalyst, wife of Isaac Asimov
  Brian Andrews (born 1955), neurosurgeon, Novelist
  Alaa Al Aswany (born 1957), Egyptian writer and practicing dentist
  Ba'al Machshavot: see Israel Isidor Elyashev
  Arnie Baker (born 1953 in Montreal, Canada) is a bicycle coach, racer and writer
  Christiaan Neethling Barnard (1922–2001) South African cardiac surgeon, famous for performing the world's first successful human-to-human heart transplant
  Martin Bax (born 1933) British founder and editor of the literary journal Ambit (1959); a developmental pediatrician and editor of the journal, Developmental and Child Neurology. He is also author of the cult novel, The Hospital Ship.
  Eric Berne (1910–70), psychiatrist who created transactional analysis; author of Games People Play.
  Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński (1874–1941) Polish gynecologist, journalist, poet, most famous as the translator of over 100 French literary classics into Polish.
  Rafael Campo (born 1964) director of the Harvard Program in the Medical Humanities; his practice serves mostly Latinos, gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender people, and people with HIV
  Ethan Canin (born 1960) American short story writer and novelist; author of Emperor of the Air, Carry Me Across the Water, and other works
  Louis-Ferdinand Céline (Louis-Ferdinand Destouches, 1894–1961), French physician and author of Voyage au bout de la nuit
  Deepak Chopra (born 1946) Indian writer on spirituality and mind-body medicine
  Don Coldsmith (born 1926) American author of primarily Western fiction; past president of Western Writers of America
  Robert Coles (born 1929) American author, child psychiatrist, and professor at Harvard University
  Alex Comfort (1920–2000) British writer and poet, author of The Joy of Sex and a science fiction novel, Tetrarch
  Robin Cook (born 1940), American author of best-selling novels, including Coma; nearly all his books deal with hot medical issues of the day, from bioterrorism to organ donation
  Michael Crichton (1942–2008) American author of Jurassic Park
  A.J. Cronin (1896–1981), Scottish novelist and essayist; creator of Dr. Finlay. Other works include The Stars Look Down, The Citadel, and The Keys of the Kingdom.  The Citadel (1937) brought much-needed attention to inequities in the British medical system and is credited with having prompted the creation of Britain's National Health Service.
  Harvey Cushing (1869-1939) American neurosurgeon, won Pulitzer Prize for his biography of Sir William Osler
  Theodore Dalrymple, pen name of Anthony Daniels (born 1949). Conservative writer, author of Spoilt Rotten: The Toxic Cult of Sentimentality, among others. Retired British prison doctor and psychiatrist.
  Colin Douglas (born 1945) pseudonym of a Scottish novelist, Colin Thomas Currie; frequent British Medical Journal contributor
  Halbert L. Dunn (1896–1975) authored High Level Wellness (1961).
  Marek Edelman (1922–2009) Polish sociopolitical activist, memoirist, last leader of the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
  Nawal El Saadawi (born 1931) Egyptian feminist who has written many books on the subject of women in Islam
  Israel Isidor Elyashev (1873–1924; pen-name: Ba'al Machshavot, Hebrew for "The Thinker" (בעל מחשבות): Lithuanian neurologist; pioneer of Hebrew and Yiddish literature; known as the first Yiddish literary critic, publisher, translator (translated Theodor Herzl's Altneuland from German into Yiddish) and forerunner of the Zionist Movement
  Frantz Fanon (1925–1961) born in Martinique, who wrote books on the psychology of
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