John Galbraith Simmons Author...Science and Medical Writer...
Novelist...Translator
John Galbraith Simmons has worked extensively in the history of science and medicine. His several books, aimed at both general and professional audiences, include: The Scientific 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Scientists, Past and Present, (Citadel)
Doctors and Discoveries: Lives That Created Today’s Medicine (Houghton Mifflin)
tPa for Stroke: The Story of a Controversial Drug (in collaboration with Justin Zivin PhD, MD)
John Galbraith Simmons was born in Chicago and graduated Northwestern University, with a subsequent master’s degree in developmental studies from Long Island University and post-graduate studies in psychoanalysis. He writes for both general and professional audiences and is the author of several works of nonfiction and four novels. His books include The Scientific 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Scientists, Past and Present (Carol 1996), Doctors and Discoveries: Lives That Created Today’s Medicine (Houghton Mifflin 2002), and (in collaboration with Justin A. Zivin MD, PhD) tPA for Stroke: The Story of a Controversial Drug (Oxford University Press 2011). For many years associated with the magazine Current Biography, he has written for Nature, produced articles for New York Academy of Sciences, reported on new developments in cancer research, and served as a consultant for Celera Genomics. His work as a translator, in collaboration with his wife, Jocelyne Geneviève Barque, includes Marquis de Sade’s multivolume Aline and Valcour, or the Philosophical Novel (Contra Mundum, 2019). He lives in New York City.
A Tale of Literary and Financial Debauchery: On Joel Warner's "Curse of the Marquis de Sade"
Los Angeles Review of Books
April 11, 2023
New York Academy of Sciences
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>300 articles “Lindau and the Zeitgeist: Annual meeting of Nobel laureates "
Nature (2010) 467, S14–S15 "Simulation for Operational Readiness in a New Freestanding
Emergency Department"
"The Ions Have It: Targeting the Ion Channels for Drug Discovery"
Simul Healthc. 2016 Oct; 11(5): 345–356.
Simmons is the author of a noir quartet:
Lamplighter
Cried the Piper
The Sharing
Midnight Walking
Translations
Aline and Valcour, or the Philosophical Novel, by Marquis de Sade. 3 vol, Contra Mundum Press (2019)
In collaboration with Jocelyne Geneviève Barque.
Our other recent translations include Outlaw: Author Armed and Dangerous, a memoir by Rédoine Faïd, also from Contra Mundum; and Ten Little Anarchists By Daniel de Roulet, from Autonomedia.
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