Frank Gill Slaughter pen-name Frank G. Slaughter, pseudonym C.V. Terry, was an American

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 novelist and physician whose books sold more than 60 million copies. His novels drew on his own experience as a doctor and his interest in history and the Bible. Through his novels, he often introduced readers to new findings in medical research and new medical technologies.

Slaughter was born in Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C.

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, the son of Stephen Lucious Slaughter and Sarah "Sallie" Nicholson Gill. When he was about five years old, his family moved to a farm near Berea, North Carolina, which is west of Oxford, North Carolina

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. He earned a bachelor's degree

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 from Trinity College (now Duke University

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) at 17 and went to medical school at Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins University

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 in Baltimore, Maryland. He began writing fiction in 1935 while a physician at Riverside Hospital in Jacksonville, Florida

Jacksonville, Florida

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, paying off a $60 typewriter at $5 a month. He rewrote the manuscript of That None Should Die, a semi-autobiographical story of a young doctor, six times before Doubleday accepted it.

Several of Slaughter's novels became films, including The Warrior, made into the 1953 Rock Hudson

Rock Hudson

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 film Seminole

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; Sangaree, made into the 1953 film of that name starring Fernando Lamas

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; and Doctors' Wives, made into the 1971 film

Doctors' Wives (1971 film)

Doctors' Wives is a 1971 American drama film directed by George Schaefer and starring Dyan Cannon, Gene Hackman, Carroll O'Connor, Richard Crenna, Janice Rule, John Colicos, and Rachel Roberts. It was based on a novel by Frank G. Slaughter.-Plot:...

 of the same name starring Dyan Cannon

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 and Gene Hackman

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Other books by Slaughter include The Purple Quest, Surgeon, U.S.A., Tomorrow's Miracle and The Scarlet Cord. Slaughter's last novel, Transplant, was published in 1987. Slaughter died May 17, 2001 in Jacksonville, Florida.

Fiction

• That None Should Die (1941)
• Spencer Brade M.D. (1944)
• A Touch of Glory (1945)
• In a Dark Garden (1946)
• The Golden Isle (1947)
• Sangaree (1948)
• The Stubborn Heart (1950)
• Fort Everglades (1951)
• The Road to Bithynia (1951)
• East Side General (1952)
• The Cross and The Crown (1953)
• Storm Heaven (1953)
• The Galileans: The story of Mary Magdalene (1953)
• The Song of Ruth (1954)
• The Healer (1955)
• The Warrior (1956)
• Sword and Scaple (1957)
• The Mapmaker (1957)
• The Crown and the Cross: The Life of Christ (1959)
• The Thorn Of Arimathea (1960)
• The Land and the Promise: The Greatest Stories of the Bible Retold (1960)
• The Curse of Jezebel (1961)
• Epidemic! (1961)
• David, Warrior and King (1962)
• Devil's Harvest (1963)
• Constantine, The Miracle of the Flaming Cross (1965)
• The Purple Quest (1965)
• Doctors' Wives (1967)
• God's Warrior (1967)
• The Sins of Herod (1968)
• Upon this Rock (1968)
• Surgeon's Choice: A Novel of Medicine Tomorrow (1969)
• The Countdown (1970)
• Convention M.D. (1972)
• Women in White (1974)
• Devil's Gamble: A Novel of Demonology (1977)
• Plague Ship (1977)
• Doctors at Risk (1983)
• No Greater Love (1985)
• Transplant (1987)

As C. V. Terry

• Buccaneer Surgeon (1954)
• Darien Venture (1955)
• Buccaneer Doctor (1955)
• The Golden Ones (1957)
• The Deadly Lady of Madagascar (1959)

Nonfiction

• Immortal Magyar: Semmelweis
  Semmelweis
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  , the Conqueror of Childbed Fever (1950)
• The New Science of Surgery (1946)
• Medicine for Moderns: The New Science of Psychosomatic Medicine (1947)

External links

• Slaughter at fantasticfiction.co.uk