Robin Cook (1) (1940–)
Autore di Coma
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Robin Cook (1) ha come alias Robin M. Cook.
Sull'Autore
Robin (Robert William Arthur) Cook, the master of the medical thriller novel, was born to Edgar Lee Cook, a commercial artist and businessman, and Audrey (Koons) Cook on May 4, 1940, in New York City. Cook spent his childhood in Leonia, New Jersey, and decided to become a doctor after seeing a mostra altro football injury at his high school. He earned a B.A. from Wesleyan University in 1962, his M.D. from Columbia University in 1966, and completed postgraduate training at Harvard before joining the U.S. Navy. Cook began his first novel, The Year of the Intern, while serving on a submarine, basing it on his experiences as a surgical resident. In 1979, Cook wed Barbara Ellen Mougin, on whom the character Denise Sanger in Brain is based. When Year of the Intern did not do particularly well, Cook began an extensive study of other books in the genre to see what made a bestseller. He decided to focus on suspenseful medical mysteries, mixing intricately plotted murder and intrigue with medical technology, as a way to bring controversial ethical and social issues affecting the medical profession to the attention of the general public. His subjects include organ transplants, genetic engineering, experimentation with fetal tissue, cancer research and treatment, and deadly viruses. Cook put this format to work very successfully in his next books, Coma and Sphinx, which not only became bestsellers, but were eventually adapted for film. Three others, Terminal, Mortal Fear, and Virus, and Cook's first science- fiction work, Invasion, have been television movies. In 2014 her title, Cell made The New York Times Best Seller List. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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Opere di Robin Cook
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Robin Cook's virus 1 copia
Jack Stapleton & Laurie Montgomery Series (Blindsight, Contagion, Chromosome 6, Vector, Marker, Crisis, Critical,… (1991) 1 copia
COMA,CHROMOSOME,TOXIN 1 copia
Shattered 1 copia
Opere correlate
Opere a cui è stato assegnato l'alias Robin M. Cook.
Reader's Digest Condensed Books: The Man from St Petersburg • Fever • Flash • Cold is the Sea (1982) — Autore — 7 copie
Reader's Digest Condensed Books: Outbreak • The Collaborators • A Boy Called Bracken • The Churchill Diamonds (1500) 5 copie
Het Beste Boek 163: Coma / Iris / veearts in Rodenburg / De verre vreemde / De zoon van Kazan 4 copie
Reader's Digest Auswahlbücher 179 - Im Schatten der Flügel / Kai lacht wieder / In mörderischer Absicht / Die… (1991) 4 copie
Reader's Digest Auswahlbücher 167 - Todesangst. Im Herzen des Tals. Stadt der Freude. Späte Liebe - spätes Glück (1989) 3 copie
Reader's Digest Auswahlbücher, Bestseller-Sonderband - Todesangst / Der Bär / Das späte Geständnis (1994) — Autore — 3 copie
Koma. - Clavel, Bernard: Wo der Ahorn Früchte trägt. - Byrne, Robert: Todesfracht. - Hart, Elizabeth:… (1980) 3 copie
Det Bästas Bokval (1999) vol 204 : Den tredje tvillingen; Kvinnans plats; Toxin; Amy och vildgässen — Autore — 2 copie
Reader's Digest Auswahlbücher, Bestseller-Sonderband - Die roten Elefanten / Lovey / Sphinx (1982) 2 copie
Reader's Digest Condensed Books: Outbreak • The Silver Touch • A Deadly Presence • Nightshade — Autore — 2 copie
Kirjavaliot - Pahan valta (Harmful intent) / Eurooppalaisena Afrikassa (Out of Africa) / Sopimus (The long kill) /… (1991) 2 copie
Het Beste Boek 150: Narcose / Ben / De vrouw die op Greta Garbo leek / Gorilla's in de mist (1991) — Autore — 2 copie
Reader's Digest Condensed Books: Free to Trade • Cloud Shadows • Acceptable Risk • White Harvest (1995) 2 copie
Reader's Digest Condensed Books: A Shine of Rainbows • The Captain's Return • Godplayer • Journey Home • Winter… (1984) — Autore — 2 copie
Reader's Digest: Acceptable Risk | Hidden Riches | The Land God Gave to Cain | Voices of Summer — Autore — 1 copia
Reader's Digest Condensed Books: Hot Money / Jenny's Mountain / Trespass / Sara Dane / Mortal Fear 1 copia
Reader's Digest Condensed Books: Acceptable Risk • Heart of the Dreaming • Eye of the Storm • This Child is Mine (1995) 1 copia
Válogatott könyvek 11. David Baldacci - A nyertes; Jack Higgins - Sasok szárnyán; Nicholas Sparks - Palackba zárt… (1999) 1 copia
Livros Condensados (Unknown Condensed Books) — Autore — 1 copia
The Haunted Boy, Sphinx, Lead Her Like a Pigeon, Red Wind, The Eighty-Yard Run (Selections from Reader's Digst… (1980) 1 copia
Vite in pericolo (fatal cure) - il miracolo di suor Agnes (st. agnes' stand) - il pugno di Dio (the fist of God) - un… — Autore — 1 copia
Reader's Digest Condensed Books: Mortal Fear • Just Another Kid • Rockets' Red Glare • The Canyon (1988) 1 copia
Fieber. - Faux, Ronald: Reinhold Messner. - Murr, Stefan: Affäre Nachtfrost. - Smith, Robert K: Haus der… (1983) 1 copia
Reader's Digest Auswahlbücher Bestseller Sonderband 1988: Abenteuer, Abenteuer / Der Fluch der Opale / Fieber (1988) 1 copia
Reader's Digest Condensed Books: “… But There Are Always Miracles” • Sphinx • The Citadel • The Lantern… — Collaboratore — 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Cook, Robin
- Nome legale
- Cook, Robert William Arthur
- Data di nascita
- 1940-05-04
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- New York, New York, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Naples, Florida, USA
Queens, New York, USA
Leonia, New Jersey, USA - Istruzione
- Wesleyan University (BS)
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons (MD|1966)
Harvard Medical School (residency) - Attività lavorative
- physician
novelist - Organizzazioni
- United States Navy
Woodrow Wilson Center's Board of Trustees
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary - Breve biografia
- Robert Brian "Robin" Cook (born May 4, 1940) is an American physician and novelist who writes about medicine and topics affecting public health.
He is best known for combining medical writing with the thriller genre. Many of his books have been bestsellers on The New York Times Best Seller List. Several of his books have also been featured in Reader's Digest. His books have sold nearly 400 million copies worldwide.
Cook was born in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up in Woodside, Queens, New York City. He moved to Leonia, New Jersey when he was eight, where he could first have the "luxury" of having his own room. He graduated from Wesleyan University and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and finished his postgraduate medical training at Harvard.
Cook ran the Cousteau Society's blood-gas lab in the south of France. He later became an aquanaut (a submarine doc) with the U.S. Navy's SEALAB program when he was drafted in 1969. Cook served in the Navy from 1969 to 1971, reaching the rank of lieutenant commander. He wrote his first novel, Year of the Intern, while serving on the Polaris submarine USS Kamehameha.
The Year of the Intern was a failure, but Cook began to study bestsellers. He said, "I studied how the reader was manipulated by the writer. I came up with a list of techniques that I wrote down on index cards. And I used every one of them in Coma." He conceived the idea for Coma, about illegally creating a supply of transplant organs, in 1975. In March 1977, that novel's paperback rights sold for $800,000. It was followed by the Egyptology thriller Sphinx in 1979 and another medical thriller, Brain, in 1981. Cook then decided he preferred writing over a career in medicine.
Cook's novels combine medical fact with fantasy. His medical thrillers are designed, in part, to keep the public aware of both the technological possibilities of modern medicine and the ensuing socio-ethical problems which come along with it. Cook says he chose to write thrillers because the forum gives him "an opportunity to get the public interested in things about medicine that they didn't seem to know about. I believe my books are actually teaching people."
The author admits he never thought that he would have such compelling material to work with when he began writing fiction in 1970. "If I tried to be the writer I am today a number of years ago, I wouldn't have very much to write about. But today, with the pace of change in biomedical research, there are any number of different issues, and new ones to come," he says.
Cook's novels have anticipated national controversy. In an interview with Stephen McDonald about the novel Shock, Cook admitted the book's timing was fortuitous.
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- Opere
- 65
- Opere correlate
- 46
- Utenti
- 38,504
- Popolarità
- #468
- Voto
- 3.4
- Recensioni
- 568
- ISBN
- 1,863
- Lingue
- 27
- Preferito da
- 60
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