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Profile of Frank Slaughter
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Frank Slaughter |
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25th February 1908 |
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Washington, District of Columbia, USA |
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Frank Gill Slaughter (1908-2001), pseudonym C.V. Terry, was an American bestseller novelist and physician, whose books sold more than 60 million copies. His novels drew on his own experience as a physician and reflected his interest in history and the Biblical world. He often introduced readers to exciting findings in medical research and new inventions in medical technology.
A native of North Carolina, Slaughter earned his bachelor's degree from Trinity College (now Duke University) at 17 and went to medical school at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
Slaughter began writing in 1935 while a physician at Riverside Hospital in Jacksonville, paying off a $60 typewriter at $5 a month. He rewrote the manuscript of That None Should Die, a semi-autobiographical story of a young doctor, six times before Doubleday accepted it.
Several of Slaughter's novels became films, including The Warrior, made into the 1953 Rock Hudson film Seminole; Sangaree, made into the 1953 film of that name starring Fernando Lamas; and Doctors' Wives, made into the 1971 film starring Dyan Cannon and Gene Hackman.
Other books by Slaughter included Plague Ship, Surgeon, U.S.A., The Mapmaker and The Scarlet Cord.
Slaughter's last novel, No Greater Love, was published in 1985.
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