“I
just want people to get lost in the story and at the end kind of sag and say,
'That was fun.' It's hardly my desire for them to sit and think, 'What a great
literary image.'” – Michael Palmer
Palmer, born on this day in 1942,
was an American physician and author whose novels are often referred to as
medical thrillers.
Palmer once claimed he never wanted
to be a writer and didn’t think he had much "flair" for it, even
though several made the New York Times Best Seller List and his works
have now been translated into 35 languages. His 1991 book Extreme Measures
was adopted into a 1996 film.
A graduate of Wesleyan University,
he said he was enticed into trying his hand at writing after fellow Wesleyan
alum and doctor Robin Cook wrote the hugely successful book Coma.
He said he thought that if Cook could write a novel, he could too.
in 2013, he wrote 21 of them – the last 3 published posthumously. But, he continued practicing medicine the
entire time, noting: “It seemed to me
that I was put on earth to take care of people. That is what I should be doing,
and I never got tired of it.”
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