Harold L. Klawans
Writer, Author
1937 – 1998
Who was Harold L. Klawans?
Harold L. Klawans was an academic neurologist who launched a parallel career as a writer.
Klawans was born in Chicago. After graduating with an M.D. degree from the University of Illinois in 1962, Dr. Klawans became a neurologist and professor of neurology and pharmacology at Rush Medical College. He published in the fields of extrapyramidal disorders, neuropharmacology, and medical history and served as editor of The Journal of Clinical Pharmacology and of the encyclopedic Handbook of Clinical Neurology while publishing several novels.
His study Chekhov's Lie, written just three years before his own death in 1998, deals with the challenges of combining the writing with the medical life.
Selected works include:
Sins of Commission ISBN 0-7472-0090-4
The Third Temple
Informed Consent
The Jerusalem Code
And Mother Makes Thirteen ISBN 1-888799-20-X
Toscanini's Fumble and Other Tales of Clinical Neurology ISBN 0-553-34662-8
Newton's Madness: Further Tales of Clinical Neurology ISBN 0-370-31420-4
Trials of an Expert Witness: Tales of Clinical Neurology and the Law ISBN 1-888799-19-6
Life, Death, and In Between : Tales of Clinical Neurology ISBN 1-56924-871-0
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