Frank G. Slaughter

Frank Gill Slaughter
Born	(1908-02-25)February 25, 1908 Washington DC, US
Died	May 17, 2001(2001-05-17) (aged 93)
Education	Duke University Trinity College of Arts and Sciences Johns Hopkins University
Occupation	Physician
Writing career
Genres	Fiction non-fiction

Frank Gill Slaughter (February 25, 1908 – May 17, 2001), pen-name Frank G. Slaughter, pseudonym C. V. Terry, was an American novelist and physician whose books sold more than 60 million copies. His novels drew on his own experience as a doctor and his interest in history and the Bible. Through his novels, he often introduced readers to new findings in medical research and new medical technologies.

Biography

Slaughter was born in Washington, DC, the son of Stephen Lucious Slaughter and Sarah "Sallie" Nicholson Gill. When he was about five, his family moved to a farm near Berea, North Carolina. He earned a bachelor's degree from Trinity College (now Duke University) at 17 and went to medical school at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.

Slaughter began writing fiction in 1935 while a physician at Riverside Hospital in Jacksonville, Florida, paying off a $60 typewriter at $5 per 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 Sangaree, made into the 1953 film of that name and Doctors' Wives, made into the 1971 film of the same name. Other books by Slaughter include The Purple Quest; Surgeon, U.S.A.; Tomorrow's Miracle; and The Scarlet Cord. Transplant, Slaughter's last novel, was published in 1987. Most of the novels credited under his C. V. Terry pseudonym were republished under his real name.

Slaughter married a former operating room nurse, Jane Mundy, in 1933. She died in 1990. They had two sons, Frank, Jr. and Randolf. Slaughter died on May 17, 2001, in Jacksonville, Florida.

William DuBois, a playwright, novelist and editor, was a silent writer with Slaughter on 27 of his historical novels.

Books

References

• Petri Liukkonen. "Frank G. Slaughter". Books and Writers.
• "Frank G. Slaughter, novelist and physician, dead", Associated Press, May 23, 2001.
• "Frank Slaughter, Novelist Of Medicine, Is Dead at 93", Paul Lewis, New York Times, May 23, 2001.
• Kevin M. McCarthy: The Book Lover's Guide to Florida: Authors, Books and Literary Sites. Pineapple Press Inc. 1992, p. 43-45, ISBN 1-56164-021-2

External links

• Slaughter at fantasticfiction.co.uk