501 noah gordon

Noah Gordon

By yeika
  • Birth of Noah Gordon

    Birth of Noah Gordon
    Noah Gordon was born in Worcester, Massachusetts. He's a writer.
  • Graduation

    He was graduated in Classical High School.
  • He marries and starts working

    Early 50s, he married with Lorraine and began working as an editor in New York in Avon Publishing Company.
    Then write in the magazine "Focus" and in various publications as a freelancer.
  • Graduate in journalism

    He was graduate in journalism at Boston university.
  • Graduate in teaching and creative writing

  • He moved to his hometown

    He's working as a reporter in The Worcester Telegram, later in Boston Herald.
    He became interested in science and medicine, and worked as editor of Journal of Abdominal Surgery and wrote articles in Psychiatric Opinion.
  • The Rabbi, Noah Gordon's first novel.

    The Rabbi, Noah Gordon's first novel.
    It's the story of Michael Kind, a young rabbi who falls in love with the daughter of a Protestant minister.
  • The Death Committee

    The Death Committee
    The hospital Mortality Conference, known as the Death Committee, meets to review case histories of patients who have died, to determine if a death could have been prevented, and to try to insure that any mistake will not be repeated.
  • The jerusalem diamond

    The jerusalem diamond
    Harry Hopeman, a diamond man from a diamond family; of his love for a remarkable Yemenite woman; and of his painstaking search for a valuable ancient diamond whose history is interwoven with the past of the Jewish people. A chronicle of ancient Judaism and modern Israel, that is at once an exciting adventure, a passionate love story, and an absorbing voyage through history.
  • The Physician

    The Physician
    This prize-winning first book of the Cole trilogy follows Robert Jeremy Cole from his 11th century boyhood in England, through Europe to an Arab medical school in Ispahan, Persia, where he studies under the immortal physician Avicenna. In 1999, the Spanish booksellers who attended the Madrid Book Fair voted The Physician one of the ten most beloved books of all time. The Physician is now under development as a motion picture.
  • Shaman

    Shaman
    Dr. Robert Judson Cole travels from his ravaged Scotland homeland, through the operating rooms of Boston, to the cabins of frontier Illinois and the war-torn fields of Gettysburg. This second book of the Cole trilogy.
  • Matters of choise

    Matters of choise
    Opposing influences complicate the life of Dr. Roberta Cole. The demands of marriage versus professional responsibility scientific advances versus social consciousness; urban worldliness versus a love of rural values; and the struggle to preserve life versus a belief in a woman's right to choose. This modern novel is the final book in the Cole trilogy.
  • The last jew

    The last jew
    When all unconverted Jews are expelled from Spain during the Inquisition, 15-year-old Yonah Toledano is left behind. He begins a meandering journey, part desperate flight, part voyage of discovery. The story of his growth into manhood--as a physician with the outer persona of an Old Christian and a soul that clings to his Jewish roots--has made The Last Jew one of the best-selling books in the world.
  • The winemaker

    The winemaker
    As his father’s second-born son, Josep Alvarez will not inherit his family’s land in the tiny grape-growing village of Santa Eulália. In love but unable to support a wife, he is caught up in the meatgrinder of the Carlist War. How he survives a bloody political intrigue and evolves into a maker of fine wines becomes a story that Noah Gordon has described as his love letter to Spain.