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Nurse writer

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Nurse writers are nurses, primarily registered nurses (RNs), who write for general audiences in the creative genres of poetry, fiction, and drama, as well as in creative non-fiction. The published work of the nurse writer is analogous to that of the physician writer, which may or may not deal explicitly with health topics but is informed by a professional experience of human vulnerability and acute observation. The following is a partial list of nurse writers, grouped by century and arranged chronologically by year of birth.

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19th century

  • Florence Nightingale (1820-1910)
  • Mary Livermore (1820-1905)
  • Emma Maria Pearson (1828-1893)
  • Katherine Prescott Wormeley (1830-1908)
  • Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)
  • Frances Margaret Taylor (1832-1900)
  • Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (1835-1905)
  • Sarah Emma Edmonds (1841-1898)
  • Susie Taylor (1848-1912)
  • 20th century

  • Lillias Hamilton (1858-1925)
  • Helen Churchill Candee (1858-1949)
  • Lillian D. Wald (1867-1940)
  • Ellen Newbold LaMotte (1873-1961)
  • Mollie Skinner (1876-1955)
  • Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876-1958)
  • D. K. Broster (1877-1950)
  • Mary Borden (1886–1968)
  • Florence Farmborough (1887-1978)
  • Agatha Christie (1890-1976)
  • Nella Larsen (1891-1964)
  • Louise de Kiriline Lawrence (1894-1992)
  • Helen Dore Boylston (1895-1984)
  • Virginia Avenel Henderson (1897 - 1996)
  • Jane Arbor (1903-1994)
  • Mary Renault (1905-1983)
  • Betty Jeffrey (1908-2000)
  • Anne Baker (1914- )
  • Patricia St. John (1919-1993)
  • Charles Logan (1930- )
  • Grace Ogot (1934- )
  • Sharon Webb (1936-2010)
  • Abasse Ndione (1946- )
  • Elizabeth Berg (1948- )
  • Sue Monk Kidd (1948- )
  • Carol Gino (1941- )
  • Echo Heron ( )
  • Elizabeth Norman ( )
  • John Glenday (1952- )
  • Kathleen Pagana (1952- )
  • Helene Tursten (1954- )
  • Robin Oliveira (1954- )
  • Gisele Pineau (1956- )
  • Jo Brand (1957- )
  • Theodore Deppe ( )
  • Anna Jansson (1958- )
  • Teresa Medeiros (1962- )
  • 21st century

  • Paul Genesse
  • Cortney Davis (1945-)
  • Theresa Brown
  • Wendy Brooks (1977-)
  • References

    Nurse writer Wikipedia