Theodore S. Drachman
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Theodore Solomon Drachman (August 31, 1904 – July 13, 1988) was a public health official and a writer.


Biography

Drachman attended the
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, where he earned his M.D. in 1938, and then earned an M.S.P.H. at
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in 1941. He was a specialist in
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and
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. He was deputy health commissioner for
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in
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, and health commissioner for Columbia and
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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
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, and is well-known to
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bibliographers as the first
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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, 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)


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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 {{US-sf-writer-stub