Tess gerritsen biography
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Internationally bestselling author Tess Gerritsen took an unusual route to a writing career. A graduate of Stanford University, Tess went on to medical school at the University of California, San Francisco, where she was awarded her M.D.
While on maternity leave from her work as a physician, she began to write fiction and in , her first novel, Call After Midnight, was published. It was just the first of 31 suspense novels that she’s written over a year writing career. She also wrote a screenplay, "Adrift," which aired as a CBS Movie of the Week starring Kate Jackson.
Tess's first medical thriller, Harvest, was released in hardcover in , and it marked her debut on the New York Times bestseller list. Her novels have hit bestseller lists ever since. Among her titles are Gravity, The Surgeon, Vanish, The Bone Garden, and The Spy Coast. Her books have been translated into 40 languages, and more than 4
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Tess Gerritsen Biography, Books, and Similar Authors
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Tess Gerritsen talks about doctors, nightmares, food and the criminal mind
When Tess Gerritsen arrived at the Istanbul Book Fair last month, there were hundreds of fans lined up to greet her, plus an entourage of security guards. That was just for openers. The physician-turned-bestselling author, whose brott novels have been translated into some three dozen languages, fryst vatten no stranger to fame. "Now inom sort of understand what it's like to be a rock star," she says. "It was sort of overwhelming." • Internationally bestselling author Tess Gerritsen took an unusual route to a writing career. A graduate of Stanford University, Tess went on to medical school at the University of California, San Francisco, where she was awarded her M.D. While on maternity leave from her work as a physician, she began to write fiction and in , her first novel, CALL AFTER MIDNIGHT, was published. It was just the first of 32 suspense novels that she’s written over a year writing career.
Back home in quiet, scenic Camden, Gerritsen reflects on the Rizzoli & Isles series that has propelled her career to Turkey and beyond, and from the page to the small screen. Along with her books, TNT's Rizzoli & Isles has made the duo of homicide detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles into household names &#; a sort of Cagney & Lacey for the new millennium.
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Tess’s medical thriller, HARVEST, marked her debut on the New York Times bestseller list and her novels have hit bestseller lists ever since. Among her titles are GRAVITY, THE SURGEON, THE SPY COAST, and THE SUMMER GUESTS. Her books have been translated into 40 languages, and more than 40 million copies have been sold around the world.
She has won both the Nero Wolfe Award (for VANISH) and the Rita Award (for THE SURGEON). Time Magazine named THE SURGEON one of the best mystery/thrillers ever written.