VJ Books Presents Author Robin Cook!
 Robin Cook was born on May 4, 1940 in Brooklyn, New York, and spent his early years in Woodside, Queens before moving to Leonia, New Jersey. He graduated from Wesleyan University summa cum laude with a major in chemistry and a distinction in government. He then attended Columbia University Medical School and spent his medical school summer electives setting up a blood/gas lab for the Jacques Cousteau Oceanographic Institute in Monaco.
Following residency training in general surgery, Dr. Cook was then drafted into the Navy and spent a tour of duty in the South Pacific on the submarine the USS Kamehameha before being transferred to the Deep Submarine Systems Project. After his completion of military service, he then undertook a second residency in ophthalmology at Harvard. After completion of his second residency, he opened a small private practice of medicine and matriculated at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government in public policy. He also accepted a clinical position at Harvard Medical School to teach residents and to see patients at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary.
Cook is widely credited with introducing the word "medical" to the thriller genre, and thirty-four years after the publication of his breakthrough novel, Coma, he continues to dominate the category he created. Cook has successfully combined medical fact with fantasy to produce a succession of twenty-eight New York Times bestsellers that have been translated into forty some languages.
Cook currently works and lives in Florida.
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Robin Cook Bibliography
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Year of the Intern - 1972
- Coma - 1977
- Sphinx - 1979
- Brain - 1981
- Fever - 1982
- Godplayer - 1982
- Mindbend - 1985
- Outbreak - 1987
- Mortal Fear - 1988
- Mutation - 1989
- Harmful Intent - 1990
- Vital Signs - 1991
- Blindsight - 1992
- Terminal - 1993
- Fatal Cure - 1994
- Acceptable Risk - 1994
- Contagion - 1995
- Chromosome 6 - 1997
- Invasion - 1997
- Toxic - 1998
- Vector - 1999
- Abduction - 2000
- Shock - 2001
- Seizure - 2003
- Marker - 2005
- Crisis - 2006
- Critical - 2007
- Foreign Body - 2008
- Intervention - 2009
- Cure - 2010
- Death Benefit - 2011
- Nano - 2012
- Cell - 2014
- Host - 2015
- Genesis - 2019
- Viral - 2021
Robin Cook Awards
- 2002 "Author of Vision" presented by the RP International Organization
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