1962-
Nasrin received Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery degrees from Mymensingh Medical College (Bangladesh) in 1984. Working as a gynecologist and anesthesiologist in Dhaka hospitals, she became increasingly aware of and vocal about the status of women in Bengali society. As a result of her writing, political and religious authorities denounced her, ultimately calling for her arrest and execution for blasphemy. With the help of PEN, Amnesty International, and the European Union, she was given asylum in Sweden in 1994. She continues to write fiction, poetry, and articles; and has been awarded the Sakharov prize for Freedom of Thought by the Parliament of the European Union.
1941-
After graduation from Tufts University with an M.D. degree in 1970, Nathanson became a pediatrician, practicing in California.
BACKGROUND -
Contemporary Authors
FICTION -
The Trouble with Wednesdays (1986)
1901-1975
Nemeth received his M.D. degree from the Semmelweis University of Medicine (Hungary) in 1925, and practiced medicine from then until 1943. In addition, he founded the periodical Tanu ("Witness"), translated classic English and Russian works, and wrote many stories, novels, and plays, few of which have been translated into English. As a force in the folk-writers movement, and proponent of Hungarianism, he was prohibited from publishing during the Stalinist period.
1926-
A 1950 Charles University (Prague) M.D. graduate, Nesvadba became a psychiatrist. In addition to science fiction, he has written several screenplays, "fantasy being for me a way of diagnosis for contemporary problems and trends."
1922-1979
After studying medicine in Lisbon, where he was arrested for his political activities, Neto returned to Angola, his homeland, to practice. In 1960 he was arrested there because of his resistance to colonial authorities. He was imprisoned and exiled, elected president of the MPLA (Movimento Popular de Libertacao de Angola) in 1962, and the first president of the People's Republic of Angola in 1975. Though a Marxist, Neto was also concerned about the preservation of indiginous Angolan culture. His poetry was published in a variety of reviews, and anthologized. Following his death in Moscow, the prominent Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe eulogized him:
...I will celebrate
The man who rode a trinity
Of awesome fates to the cause
Of our trampled race!
Thou Healer, Soldier and Poet!
1934-
Neuman earned his M.D. degree at New York University, graduating in 1959. He did further training in psychiatry, served as assistant chief of neuropsychiatry with the U.S. Army Medical Corps in Nuremberg, West Germany, and has practiced and held various administrative positions in the New York area.
1921-
Newbold graduated with an M.D. degree from Duke University in 1945, and went on to practice internal medicine and psychiatry. He has also, apparently, written novels under a pen name, unknown to me.
1924-
Nicol graduated M.B., B.Chir., 1951, M.D. 1956, and Ph.D. 1958 from Cambridge University; and was the first African, at either Cambridge or Oxford, to become a fellow of his college (Christ's College). In addition to medical research and writing, notably on malnutrition, anemia, and the structure of insulin; he has served as principal of Fourah Bay College, Freetown, Sierra Leone, vice chancellor of the University of Sierra Leone, ambassador to the United Nations, and executive director of the United Nations Institue for Training and Research. His creative writing has been well received and anthologized.
1849-1923
After some medical training yet unknown to me, Nordau settled in Paris, practiced medicine, and was actively involved in the Zionist congresses. In addition, he was, like his friend and fellow physician Pio Baroja, a prolific writer.
1955-
Norman graduated from the Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine in 1981, and, after further training, began a dermatology practice. He has taught creative writing for ten years, and received a fellowship to teach creative writing to senior citizens. His writing includes medical articles in the lay and medical press, as well as fiction and poetry and a screenplay; and he was recently selected for the national poetry project by poet laureate Robert Pinsky. Only two of his seventeen published books are listed.
1928-1992
After graduating with an M.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1955, and interning, Nourse worked as a general practitioner in North Bend, Washington, until 1964, when he devoted himself full time to writing. Only a few of his many books are listed below, his well-known Intern being grouped with FICTION in keeping with Nourse's observation in its introduction that, "the journal that follows must technically be classified as fiction." The relation of Nourse's Blade Runner to the famous1982 film of the same name is apparently only slight. Though William S. Burroughs wrote a screenplay (Blade Runner: A Movie) in 1979 loosely based on Nourse's novel, but never produced; the film was inspired by Philip K. Dick's 1968 novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. Both Nourse's novel and the film deal with futuristic police states, but the film uses only the title of Nourse's book.