Perri Klass
Författare till A Not Entirely Benign Procedure: Four Years As A Medical Student
Om författaren
Perri Klass is a practicing pediatrician, an acclaimed author of fiction & nonfiction, & a prizewinning journalist. She has won five O. Henry Awards for her short stories, including three of the stories in "Love & Modern Medicine". Her fiction includes two novels, "Recombinations & Other Women's visa mer Children", & a collection of short stories, "I Am Having an Adventure". She has also written two collections of essays about medicine, "A Not Entirely Benign Procedure: Four Years as a Medical Student" & "Baby Doctor: A Pediatrician's Training". Her columns & articles have appeared in the "New York Times Magazine", the "Washington Post", the "Boston Globe", "Discover", & "Parenting". She recently won a James Beard Foundation Award for an article in "Gourmet", "The Lunch Box as Battlefield." Both Klass's fiction & her journalism have dealt with issues of medicine & society. In her medical career she practices pediatrics at Dorchester House, a neighborhood health center in Boston, & is medical director of the national literacy program Reach Out & Read, dedicated to making books & literacy promotion part of pediatric primary care. Klass lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with Larry Wolff, a professor of history at Boston College, & their children. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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Verk av Perri Klass
Quirky Kids: Understanding and Helping Your Child Who Doesn't Fit In- When to Worry and When Not to Worry (2003) 87 exemplar
Every Mother Is a Daughter: The Neverending Quest for Success, Inner Peace, and a Really Clean Kitchen (Recipes and… (2006) 59 exemplar
Taking Care of Your Own: Parenthood and the Medical Mind (The Grand Rounds Press Series) (1992) 12 exemplar
Other People's Children 1 exemplar
The Almond Torte Equilibrium {short story} 1 exemplar
Associerade verk
The Strange History of Suzanne LaFleshe and Other Stories of Women and Fatness (2003) — Bidragsgivare — 27 exemplar
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Allmänna fakta
- Vedertaget namn
- Klass, Perri
- Födelsedag
- 1958
- Kön
- female
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Födelseort
- Trinidad
- Bostadsorter
- Trinidad
Leonia, New Jersey, USA
New York, New York, USA - Utbildning
- Harvard Medical School
- Yrken
- pediatrician
writer
Professor of Journalism - Relationer
- Klass, Sheila Solomon (mother)
Tenn, William (uncle) - Organisationer
- New York University
Reach Out and Read
The New York Times
Boston University (School of Medicine) - Priser och utmärkelser
- O. Henry Award
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Recensioner
Listor
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Statistik
- Verk
- 19
- Även av
- 2
- Medlemmar
- 861
- Popularitet
- #29,721
- Betyg
- 3.7
- Recensioner
- 18
- ISBN
- 55
- Språk
- 1
- Favoritmärkt
- 2
Klass is maybe the most renowned medical writer and although she is far from the best, she never fails to entertain.… (mer)