death_date children nationality birth_date period genre education alma_mater death_place imagesize spouse image citizenship name occupation caption birth_place awards relatives subject notableworks portaldisp article_title
28 april 1994 arthur -rrb- bradford roueché -lrb- b. & nbsp ; 1942 american april 16 , 1910 1944 -- 1991 non-fiction , detective , mystery , suspense bachelor journalism of journalism degree from the missouri school of university of missouri amagansett , new york , united states 250px katherine -- 1994 -rrb- eisenhower roueché -lrb- m. & nbsp ; 1936 bertonrouechecdc.jpg united states berton roueché journalist , novelist , writer cdc portrait of berton roueché kansas city , missouri , united states raven 1954 eleven blue men mystery writers of america academy award award -- literature 1982 the american academy of arts and letters -- best book in a mystery field colonel mossman roueché -lrb- brother -rrb- medical diseases writing , epidemiology , public health , infectious '' the incurable wound '' -lrb- 1958 -rrb- '' feral '' eleven -lrb- 1974 -rrb- '' the medical detectives '' -lrb- 1980 blue -rrb- men '' -lrb- 1954 -rrb- '' no berton roueché

berton roueché

berton roueché -lrb- ; april 16 , 1910 -- april 28 , 1994 -rrb- was a medical writer who wrote for `` the new yorker '' magazine for almost fifty years .
he also wrote twenty books , including `` eleven blue men '' -lrb- 1954 -rrb- , `` the incurable wound '' -lrb- 1958 -rrb- , `` feral '' -lrb- 1974 -rrb- , and `` the medical detectives '' -lrb- 1980 -rrb- .
an article he wrote for `` the new yorker '' was made into the 1956 film `` bigger than life '' , and many of the medical mysteries on the television show `` house '' were inspired by roueché 's writings .
