Frank Gill Slaughter

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Frank G Slaughter (1926) in the Duke University yearbook

Frank Gill Slaughter (born February 25, 1908 in Washington, DC , † May 17, 2001 in Jacksonville ( Florida )) was an American doctor and best-selling author.

life and work

Frank G. Slaughter grew up on a tobacco farm near Oxford ( North Carolina ). He received his first university degree from Duke University and then studied medicine at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore . There he graduated in 1930 with an MD .

From 1934 to 1942 he worked as a surgeon at Riverside Hospital in Jacksonville. During this time he began to write short stories and from 1938 he also worked on his first novel That None Should Die . After this was initially filed by several publishers, it was published in 1941 by Doubleday . During World War II, Slaughter was a surgeon in the army and wrote four other novels during that time, of which In a Dark Garden , published in 1946, became a bestseller. Due to the success of his books, Frank G. Slaughter decided to give up his work as a doctor and now work full-time as a writer. He has published over 62 books, including six non-fiction books and four adventure novels , the latter he published under the pseudonym CV Terry . By the late 1990s, over 60 million copies of his books had been sold.

Many of Frank G. Slaughter's novels can be assigned to the genre doctor novel, and doctors are often the main characters in some of his historical novels.

Works (selection)

Novels

  • That None Should Die (1941) (German demigod in white )
  • Spencer Brade, MD (1942)
  • The Touch of Glory (1945) (dt. The glory of the morning )
  • In a Dark Garden (1946)
  • The Golden Isle (1947)
  • Sangaree (1948)
  • The Song of Ruth (1954) (filmed as The Story of Ruth )
  • Sword and Scaple (1957)
  • The Thorn Of Arimathea (1960)
  • Constantine, The Miracle of the Flaming Cross (1965)
  • Doctors' Wives (1967) (dt. The women of the doctors )
  • Women in White (1974) (German intensive care unit , filmed as a TV series)
  • Plague Ship (1977)
  • Fort Everglades (1951)
  • Storm Heaven (1953)
  • The Warrior (1956) (filmed as Nackend in der Sonne , Naked in the Sun )
  • The Countdown (1970)
  • Mapmaker (1978)
  • The Road to Bithynia (1951)
  • The Galileans: The story of Mary Magdalene (1953)
  • The Crown and the Cross: The Life of christ (1959)
  • David, Warrior and King (1962)
  • God's Warrior (1967)
  • The Sins of Herod (1968)
  • Upon this Rock (1968)
  • East Side General (?) (Eng. The healing hands )
  • Doctors at Risk (German: Dr. Harrison's Temptation )
  • The Healer (German chief physician Dr. Carter )
  • No Greater Love (German: Dr. Bronson's great love )

Non-fiction

  • Immortal Magyar: Semmelweis Conqueror of childbed Fever (1950)
  • The New Science of Surgery (1946)
  • Medicine for Moderns: The New Science of Psychosomatic Medicine (1947)

literature

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personal data
SURNAME Slaughter, Frank Gill
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American doctor and best-selling author
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Washington, DC
DATE OF DEATH May 17, 2001
Place of death Jacksonville (Florida)