Noah Gordon

Noah Gordon was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1926. His novels are about medical history, medical ethics, Inquisition and Jewish cultural history.

He studied in the Union Hill School of Worcester. His parents forced him to study medicine, but he changed to journalism without saying anything to them. He graduated from Boston University in 1950 and later, he graduated with a masters in English and Creative Writing. 

Gordon got a job in New York for Avon Publishing Co. Two years later, he went to a small magazine, Focus. 

While in New York he got married to Lorraine Seay and when they had had their first son they returned to Massachusetts. There he worked as a freelance journalist for a year, and then he started to work as a newspaper reporter in his hometown for The Worcester Telegram.

He was known worldwide for his novel The Doctor. After this, he wrote the saga of the Cole family,  finishing  with Shaman and Dr. Cole. 

His novel Shaman won the first James Fenimore Cooper Prize for Best Historical Fiction in 1993.

In 1996 he was awarded as a Distinguished Alumnus of Boston University.

In 2008 Noah Gordon, when he was 81 years, he told the German magazine Vanity Fair: "I will not start to write any novel. I have more ideas each day, but my novels are between 500 and 700 pages, so I do not want that I die and one novel will be unfinished"

The 'best-seller that made Noah Gordon famous,' The Doctor ', which celebrates its 25th anniversary, will be shown in the cinema in 2012. It will be directed by a German director, Roland Suso Richter.



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