Nurse writer
Nurse writers are nurses, primarily registered nurses (RNs), who write for general audiences in the creative genres of poetry, fiction, and drama, as well as in creative non-fiction. The published work of the nurse writer is analogous to that of the physician writer, which may or may not deal explicitly with health topics but is informed by a professional experience of human vulnerability and acute observation. The following is a partial list of nurse writers, grouped by century and arranged chronologically by year of birth.
19th century[edit]
- Florence Nightingale (1820-1910)
- Mary Livermore (1820-1905)
- Emma Maria Pearson (1828-1893)
- Katherine Prescott Wormeley (1830-1908)
- Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)
- Frances Margaret Taylor (1832-1900)
- Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (1835-1905)
- Sarah Emma Edmonds (1841-1898)
- Susie Taylor (1848-1912)
20th century[edit]
- Lillias Hamilton (1858-1925)
- Helen Churchill Candee (1858-1949)
- Lillian D. Wald (1867-1940)
- Ellen Newbold LaMotte (1873-1961)
- Mollie Skinner (1876-1955)
- Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876-1958)
- D. K. Broster (1877-1950)
- Mary Borden (1886–1968)
- Florence Farmborough (1887-1978)
- Agatha Christie (1890-1976)
- Nella Larsen (1891-1964)
- Louise de Kiriline Lawrence (1894-1992)
- Helen Dore Boylston (1895-1984)
- Virginia Avenel Henderson (1897 - 1996)
- Jane Arbor (1903-1994)
- Mary Renault (1905-1983)
- Betty Jeffrey (1908-2000)
- Anne Baker (1914- )
- Patricia St. John (1919-1993)
- Charles Logan (1930- )
- Grace Ogot (1934- )
- Sharon Webb (1936-2010)
- Abasse Ndione (1946- )
- Elizabeth Berg (1948- )
- Sue Monk Kidd (1948- )
- Carol Gino (1941- )
- Echo Heron ( )
- Elizabeth Norman ( )
- John Glenday (1952- )
- Kathleen Pagana (1952- )
- Helene Tursten (1954- )
- Robin Oliveira (1954- )
- Gisele Pineau (1956- )
- Jo Brand (1957- )
- Theodore Deppe ( )
- Anna Jansson (1958- )
- Teresa Medeiros (1962- )
21st century[edit]
- Paul Genesse
- Cortney Davis (1945-)
- Theresa Brown
- Josephine Ensign, FNP, MPH, DrPH.
- Dr. Scharmaine L. Baker, NP
- Wendy Brooks[1] (1977-)
Further reading[edit]
- Chinn, Peggy L. and Jean Watson, eds. Art and Aesthetics in Nursing. New York: National League for Nursing Press, 1994.
- Davis, Cortney, and Judy Schaefer, eds. Between the Heartbeats: Poetry and Prose by Nurses. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1995.
- Davis, Cortney, and Judy Schaefer, eds. Intensive Care: More Poetry and Prose by Nurses. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2003.
- Hallett, Christine E. Nurse Writers of the Great War. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2016.
- Schaefer, Judy, ed. The Poetry of Nursing: Poems and Commentaries of Leading Nurse-Poets. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2006.
References[edit]
- ^ "Coming Soon - Future home of something quite cool". www.missionsrn.com. Archived from the original on 2017-09-11. Retrieved 2015-06-04.