Theodore Solomon Drachman (August 31, 1904 – July 13, 1988) was a public health official and a writer.
Biography
Drachman attended the
University of Minnesota, where he earned his M.D. in 1938, and then earned an
M.S.P.H. at
Columbia University in 1941.
He was a specialist in
preventive medicine and
epidemiology. He was deputy health commissioner for
Westchester County in
New York
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, and health commissioner for
Columbia
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and
Ulster counties in New York between 1946 and 1979.
He also worked as a consultant to various health organizations around the world.
''Cry Plague!'' was an early
Ace Double, and is well-known to
science fiction bibliographers as the first
Ace Double with a recognizably science-fictional plot. He also wrote one work of non-fiction: ''The Grande Lapu-Lapu'' (memoirs) (1972).
Drachman died on July 13, 1988, at the age of 83, at his home in
Philmont, New York
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, of cardiac arrest.
Writings
As an author, Drachman's fiction publications included:
* ''False Faces'' (1931)
* ''Cry Plague!'' (1953)
* ''Something for the Birds'' (1958)
* ''Addicted to Murder'' (1960)
* ''Reason for Madness'' (1970)
* ''The Deadly Dream'' (1982)
References
External links
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20th-century American novelists
American male novelists
American science fiction writers
University of Minnesota Medical School alumni
1988 deaths
1904 births
American male short story writers
20th-century American short story writers
20th-century American male writers
20th-century American non-fiction writers
American male non-fiction writers
Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health alumni
American health officials
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