Barry Werth is an American author and journalist. His work has appeared in ''

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'', ''

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'', '' GQ'', the '' Smithsonian'', and the ''

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''. He has also served as an instructor in journalism at

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, and

Boston University Boston University (BU) is a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. The university is nonsectarian, but has a historical affiliation with the United Methodist Church. It was founded in 1839 by Methodists with its original campu ...

. Werth received a

Stonewall Book Award The Stonewall Book Award is a set of three literary awards that annually recognize "exceptional merit relating to the gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender experience" in English-language books published in the U.S. They are sponsored by the Rainbo ...

in 2002 for ''The Scarlet Professor'', his biography of

Newton Arvin Fredrick Newton Arvin (August 25, 1900 – March 21, 1963) was an American literary critic and academic. He achieved national recognition for his studies of individual nineteenth-century American authors. After teaching at Smith College in N ...

, a literary critic who was publicly forced into retirement in 1960 during an anti-pornography drive by the US Post Office. The book was later adapted into the documentary film ''The Great Pink Scare'', and as a 2017 opera by Eric Sawyer and Harley Erdman based on Werth's book. His book ''Damages'' is commonly used as a case study for teaching medical malpractice in law schools.

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* '' The Billion-Dollar Molecule: One Company's Quest for the Perfect Drug'' (1995) * ''Damages: One Family's Legal Struggles in the World of Medicine'' (1998) * ''The Scarlet Professor: Newton Arvin: A Literary Life Shattered by Scandal'' (2002) * ''The Architecture and Design of Man and Woman: The Marvel of the Human Body, Revealed'' (2004) (with Alexander Tsiaras) * ''31 Days: The Crisis That Gave Us the Government We Have Today'' (2006) * ''Banquet at Delmonico's: Great Minds, the Gilded Age, and the Triumph of Evolution in America'' (2009) *

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