Nurse writer
# Nurse writer

Nurse writers are nurses, primarily registered nurses (RNs), who write for general audiences in the creative genres of poetry, fiction, and drama, as well as in creative non-fiction. The published work of the nurse writer is analogous to that of the physician writer, which may or may not deal explicitly with health topics but is informed by a professional experience of human vulnerability and acute observation. The following is a partial list of nurse writers, grouped by century and arranged chronologically by year of birth.

## 19th century

* Florence Nightingale (1820-1910)
* Mary Livermore (1820-1905)
* Emma Maria Pearson (1828-1893)
* Katherine Prescott Wormeley (1830-1908)
* Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)
* Frances Margaret Taylor (1832-1900)
* Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (1835-1905)
* Sarah Emma Edmonds (1841-1898)
* Susie Taylor (1848-1912)

## 20th century

* Lillias Hamilton (1858-1925)
* Helen Churchill Candee (1858-1949)
* Lillian D. Wald (1867-1940)
* Ellen Newbold LaMotte (1873-1961)
* Mollie Skinner (1876-1955)
* Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876-1958)
* D. K. Broster (1877-1950)
* Mary Borden (1886–1968)
* Florence Farmborough (1887-1978)
* Agatha Christie (1890-1976)
* Nella Larsen (1891-1964)
* Louise de Kiriline Lawrence (1894-1992)
* Helen Dore Boylston (1895-1984)
* Virginia Avenel Henderson (1897 - 1996)
* Jane Arbor (1903-1994)
* Mary Renault (1905-1983)
* Betty Jeffrey (1908-2000)
* Anne Baker (1914- )
* Patricia St. John (1919-1993)
* Charles Logan (1930- )
* Grace Ogot (1934- )
* Sharon Webb (1936-2010)
* Abasse Ndione (1946- )
* Elizabeth Berg (1948- )
* Sue Monk Kidd (1948- )
* Carol Gino (1941- )
* Echo Heron ( )
* Elizabeth Norman ( )
* John Glenday (1952- )
* Kathleen Pagana (1952- )
* Helene Tursten (1954- )
* Robin Oliveira (1954- )
* Gisele Pineau (1956- )
* Jo Brand (1957- )
* Theodore Deppe ( )
* Anna Jansson (1958- )
* Teresa Medeiros (1962- )

## 21st century

* Paul Genesse
* Cortney Davis (1945-)
* Theresa Brown
* Josephine Ensign, FNP, MPH, DrPH.
* Dr. Scharmaine L. Baker, NP
* Wendy Brooks (1977-)
