Noah Gordon

Gordon was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1926 and lives in Boston, where he began his career in the 1950s as a professional author at the Boston Herald. After publishing some short stories, he made his breakthrough with his very first novel, "The Rabbi." Among his further important publications are "The Death Commitee," "The Bodega," "The Last Jew" and "The Jerusalem Diamond."

"The Physician" was released in America in the mid 1980s and brought Gordon his biggest success up to then. Especially in Europe and in the German-language countries the book became a genre-defining megaseller and historical-novel classic that is still extremely beloved to this day and absolutely timeless. It was chosen as one of the Top Ten most popular books of all time in 1999 by Spanish booksellers.

No other novelist has packed so many important historical milestones of medicine in such exciting, fictitious stories than Noah Gordon. Foremost among them are "The Physician" and "Shaman," the first two volumes of his Physician trilogy revolving around Rob Cole and his successors. They have thrilled many millions of readers around the world and made medical pioneering feats accessible to them in a vividly portrayed historical environment. This was made possible in part by the fact that Gordon initially studied medicine after World War II, before he discovered his love of writing and switched to journalism. In 1950 he obtained his Master's degree in English and Creative Writing at Boston University.

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