One Children's Place (eBook / ePub)

Autoren-Porträt von Lee Gutkind

Lee Gutkind has been recognized by Vanity Fair as "the godfather behind creative nonfiction." A prolific writer, he has authored and edited over twenty-five books, and is the founder and editor of Creative Nonfiction, the first and largest literary magazine to publish only narrative nonfiction. Gutkind has received grants, honors, and awards from numerous organizations including the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Science Foundation. A man of many talents, Gutkind has been a motorcyclist, medical insider, sports expert, sailor, and college professor. He is currently distinguished writer in residence in the Consortium for Science, Policy, and Outcomes at Arizona State University and a professor in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication.

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“Dramatic, well-written . . . An honest, thorough, and moving portrayal of hospital life.” —Library Journal
“[A] striking portrait . . . Employing a journalist’s ‘fly on the wall’ strengths of observation, rendering insights with novelistic verve, Gutkind recounts hospital procedures . . . and chronicles a procession of tragedies and triumphs.” —Publishers Weekly
“Portraits of doctors and nurses, sometimes heroes, sometimes selfish and spoiled—not gods, but human.” —Kirkus Reviews
“As close as most of us will come to knowing what goes on behind the scenes . . . Gutkind has written his best book so far.” —Pittsburgh