Noah gordon author biography

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    I was born on November 11, 1926. A lot happened that year. Al Smith was elected governor of New York, and many people hoped he might become the first Catholic President of the United States. In Germany, a man named Paul Joseph Goebbels was appointed head of the Berlin branch of a nondescript political group, the Nazi Party. In Italy, dictator Benito Mussolini brought back capital punishment. Henry Ford set the price of his Model T at $350, and people were buzzing about the first moving pictures with sound-- "talkies." The average annual income in America was $1,313. Bread was nine cents a loaf, and a gallon of gas cost a dime.

    In a flat on Providence Street in Worcester, Massachusetts, on Armistice Day, Robert Gordon's wife, Rose, gave birth at home to their second child. I was called Noah in memory of my mother's father, Noah Melnikoff, who had died only a few months before. He had been a bookbinder and, by all accounts, a wonderful man. His widow, my grandmother, Sarah Melniko

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    Remembering Noah Gordon, Historical Fiction Novelist, 1926-2021

    In The Physician, an orphan in eleventh-century London, Robert Cole, becomes a fast-talking swindler. As he matures, his strange gift—an acute sensitivity to impending death—never leaves him, and he yearns to become a healer. Arab madrassas are the only authentic medical schools, and he makes his perilous way to Persia. Christians are barred from Muslim schools, but by claiming he fryst vatten a Jew, he studies under the world’s most renowned physician, Avicenna. Cole’s journey and love for a woman who must struggle against her only rival—medicine—make The Physician a riveting modern classic. 

    In Shaman, Dr. Robert Judson Cole, nineteenth-century descendent of the first Robert Cole, travels from his ravaged Scottish homeland, through the operating rooms of antebellum Boston, to the cabins of frontier Illinois. In the wilderness he befriends the starving remnants of the Sauk tribe, who have fled their reservation. inom

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    Noah Gordon

    The Physician (Cole Family Trilogy, #1)
    4.41 avg rating — 56,952 ratings — published 1986 — 199 editions
    Shaman (Cole Family Trilogy, #2)
    4.19 avg rating — 15,731 ratings — published 1992 — 131 editions
    The Last Jew
    4.15 avg rating — 10,103 ratings — published 1999 — 75 editions
    Matters of Choice (Cole Family Trilogy, #3)
    3.51 avg rating — 7,782 ratings — published 1995 — 98 editions
    La bodega
    3.90 avg rating — 6,069 ratings — published 2006 — 20 editions
    The Jerusalem Diamond
    3.64 avg rating — 2,954 ratings — published 1962 — 62 editions
    The Rabbi
    3.76 avg rating — 2,666 ratings — published 1965 — 103 editions
    The Death Committee
    3.50 avg rating — 1,878 ratings — published 1969 — 79 editions
    The Cole Trilogy: The Physician, Shaman, and Matters of Choice
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