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Berton Roueché | |
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 CDC portrait of Berton Roueché | |
| Born | Clarence Berton Roueché April 16, 1910[1][2] Chicago, Illinois, United States |
| Died | April 28, 1994 (aged 84)[3] Amagansett, New York, United States |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Education | Bachelor of Journalism degree from the Missouri School of Journalism |
| Alma mater | University of Missouri |
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| Writing career | |
| Period | 1944–1991 |
| Genres | non-fiction, detective, mystery, suspense |
| Subjects | Medical writing, epidemiology, public health, infectious diseases |
| Notable works | Eleven Blue Men (1954) The Incurable Wound (1958) Feral (1974) The Medical Detectives (1980) |
| Notable awards | Raven Award – Best Book in a Mystery Field – Mystery Writers of America 1954 Eleven Blue Men Academy Award – Literature – The American Academy of Arts and Letters 1982 |
Clarence Berton Roueché Jr. (/ruːˈʃeɪ/ roo-SHAY;[3] April 16, 1910[1][2] – April 28, 1994[3]) was an American medical writer who wrote for The New Yorker magazine for almost fifty years.[3][4] He wrote twenty books, including Eleven Blue Men (1954), The Incurable Wound (1958), Feral (1974), and The Medical Detectives (1980).[3] An article he wrote for The New Yorker was made into the 1956 film Bigger Than Life,[3][5] and many of the medical mysteries on the television show House were inspired by Roueché's writings.[6][7]
Early life and education
Berton Roueché was born in Chicago on April 16, 1910, to Clarence Berton Roueché Sr., a tailor, and Nana Maria Mossman.[8][9][10] His paternal great-grandparents emigrated from France.[11] He graduated from Southwest High School in Kansas City in 1928 and is a member of the Southwest High School Hall of Fame.[12] He received an undergraduate journalism degree at the University of Missouri in 1933.[3]
Career
He was a reporter for The Kansas City Star, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.[3]
In 1944, he was hired as a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine.[3] In 1946, "The Annals of Medicine" department of the magazine was created for him.[3] "The Annals of Medicine" is a series about medical detection and the fight against different diseases. An article he wrote for The New Yorker, entitled "Ten Feet Tall", was made into a 1956 film called Bigger Than Life, which stars James Mason.[3][5] The article and film are about the negative side effects of the drug cortisone.[3][13] Roueché remained a staff writer for The New Yorker until his death, a span of about fifty years.[3][4]
In addition to writing for The New Yorker, he wrote twenty books,[3] mostly pieces of medical writing focused on epidemiology, with elements of mystery and detective work. He wrote several suspense novels, including Black Weather (1945), The Last Enemy (1956), Feral (1974), and Fago (1977).[3] Roueché's writings, especially his book The Medical Detectives (1980), inspired in part the television show House, which premiered in 2004 on the Fox network.[6][7] Many of the medical cases in the show are directly inspired by real-life cases in The Medical Detectives.[6][7] His 1954 book Eleven Blue Men, which was a collection of pieces he had written for The New Yorker, was awarded a Raven by the Mystery Writers of America.[3] In 1982, he received an Academy Award of The American Academy of Arts and Letters for literature.[14][15] He received awards from the American Medical Association, the New England Journal of Medicine, the Kansas City Academy of Medicine, the American Medical Writers Association, and the Lasker Foundation.[3]
Personal life
On October 28, 1936, he married Katherine Eisenhower, the niece of future U.S. President General Dwight D. Eisenhower.[1][2][13] She remained his wife until his death in 1994. They had one child, Arthur Bradford Roueché, who was born November 16, 1942.[1][2]
Later in life, he developed emphysema (COPD).[3]
On April 28, 1994, Roueché died at his home in Amagansett, Long Island. He was 84 years old. The cause of death was suicide.[3]
Bibliography
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Books
Fiction
- Black Weather (1945) (also known as Rooming House)
- The Last Enemy (1956)
- Feral (1974) (also released as The Cats)
- Fago (1977)
Medical writing
- Eleven Blue Men, and Other Narratives of Medical Detection (1954) (alternative title: Annals of Medical Detection)
- The Incurable Wound and Further Narratives of Medical Detection (1958)
- Roueché, Berton, ed. (1963). Curiosities of Medicine: An Assembly of Medical Diversions, 1552–1962.
- A Man Named Hoffman and Other Narratives of Medical Detection (1966) (published in the UK as Dossier of Medical Detection)
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- Annals of Epidemiology (1967)
- The Orange Man and Other Narratives of Medical Detection (1971)
- The Medical Detectives (1980, reissued in 1991)
- The Medical Detectives II (1984)
- The Man Who Grew Two Breasts: And Other True Tales of Medical Detection (1996) (published posthumously; the book contains seven instalments that had not been in any books previously)[16]
Travel writing
- Greener Grass (1948)
- The Delectable Mountains (1953)
- What's Left: Reports on a Diminishing America (1968)
- Desert and plain, the mountains and the river: A celebration of rural America by Berton Roueché and David Plowden (1975)
- The River World and Other Explorations (1978)
- Special Places: In Search of Small Town America (1982)
- Sea to Shining Sea: People, Travels, Places (1987)
Other nonfiction
- The Neutral Spirit: a Portrait of Alcohol (1960)
Essays and reporting
Annals of Medicine
| Article | New Yorker publication | Book publication | Later collection |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Alerting of Mr. Pomerantz | August 23, 1947 | Eleven Blue Men | The Medical Detectives II |
| A Perverse, Ungrateful, Maleficent Malady | March 6, 1948 | ||
| Eleven Blue Men | May 29, 1948 | The Medical Detectives | |
| A Man from Mexico | June 4, 1949 | The Medical Detectives II | |
| The Fog | September 23, 1950 | The Medical Detectives II | |
| A Pig from Jersey | November 11, 1950 | The Medical Detectives | |
| A Pinch of Dust | June 16, 1951 | The Medical Detectives II | |
| Something Extraordinary | July 21, 1951 | ||
| A Game of Wild Indians | March 29, 1952 | The Medical Detectives | |
| Family Reunion | December 27, 1952 | ||
| Birds of a Feather | April 11, 1953 | The Medical Detectives II | |
| A Lonely Road | October 10, 1953 | The Medical Detectives II | |
| Lost | June 12, 1954 | The Incurable Wound | The Medical Detectives II |
| One of the Lucky Ones | February 19, 1955 | The Medical Detectives II | |
| Ten Feet Tall | September 3, 1955 | ||
| CH3CO2C6H4CO2H | March 24, 1956 | The Medical Detectives | |
| The Incurable Wound | March 30, 1957 | The Medical Detectives | |
| The Most Delicate Thing in the World | April 27, 1957 | The Medical Detectives II | |
| Impression: Essentially Normal | March 29, 1958 | A Man Named Hoffman | The Medical Detectives |
| The Liberace Room | September 10, 1960 | The Medical Detectives | |
| Placebo | October 8, 1960 | The Medical Detectives II | |
| A Certain Contribution | January 14, 1961 | The Medical Detectives II | |
| A Great Green Cloud | July 8, 1961 | ||
| S. Miami | November 25, 1961 | The Medical Detectives II | |
| An Emotion of Weirdness | August 10, 1963 | ||
| Back to Venice | October 5, 1963 | ||
| Leaves of Three | September 5, 1964 | The Medical Detectives II | |
| A Swim in the Nile | October 31, 1964 | The Medical Detectives | |
| A Man Named Hoffman | April 17, 1965 | The Medical Detectives | |
| Something a Little Unusual | May 8, 1965 | The Orange Man | The Medical Detectives |
| In the Bughouse | November 20, 1965 | The Medical Detectives II | |
| Shiver and Burn | November 5, 1966 | The Medical Detectives II | |
| The Orange Man | May 20, 1967 | The Medical Detectives | |
| Three Sick Babies | September 28, 1968 | The Medical Detectives | |
| The Case of Mrs. Carter | November 30, 1968 | The Medical Detectives II | |
| The Hiccups | March 29, 1969 | The Medical Detectives II | |
| The Dead Mosquitos | October 4, 1969 | The Medical Detectives | |
| A Woman with a Headache | January 24, 1970 | The Medical Detectives II | |
| The Huckleby Hogs [Insufficient Evidence] | August 15, 1970 | The Medical Detectives | |
| A Small, Apprehensive Child | April 3, 1971 | The Medical Detectives II | |
| The West Branch Study [The Simpsons and the Hepatitides] | August 14, 1971 | The Medical Detectives | |
| The Santa Clause Specimen | August 28, 1971 | The Medical Detectives II | |
| As Empty as Eve | September 2, 1974 | The Medical Detectives | |
| Two Blue Hands | December 15, 1975 | ||
| All I Could Do Was Stand in the Woods | September 5, 1977 | ||
| Antipathies | March 6, 1978 | ||
| Sandy | August 14, 1978 | ||
| Live and Let Live | July 9, 1979 | ||
| A Rainy Day on the Vineyard | July 28, 1980 | ||
| The Prognosis for This Patient is Horrible | January 18, 1982 | The Medical Detectives Volume II | |
| The Hoofbeats of a Zebra | May 28, 1984 | ||
| A Contemporary Touch | August 6, 1984 | ||
| The Dinosaur Collection | May 5, 1986 | The Man Who Grew Two Breasts | |
| Cinnabar | December 1, 1986 | ||
| The Fumigation Chamber | December 28, 1987 | The Medical Detectives (1991 reissue) | |
| A Lean Cuisine | June 20, 1988 | ||
| The Foulest and Nastiest Creatures That Be | September 5, 1988 | ||
| The Poker Room | August 28, 1989 | The Man Who Grew Two Breasts | |
| A Good Safe Tan | March 4, 1991 | ||
| The Man Who Grew Two Breasts | — | ||
| Overdoing It | — | ||
| Hoping | — |
Other
- Roueché, Berton & A. Sadler (February 4, 1950). "Novice". The Talk of the Town. The New Yorker. 25 (50): 23.
References
- 1 2 3 4 Berger-Knorr, Lawrence (2005). The Pennsylvania Relations of Dwight D. Eisenhower. Sunbury Press. p. 101. ISBN 0-9760925-4-9. Retrieved April 5, 2008.
- 1 2 3 4 "Eisenhower Family Tree". Eisenhower Birthplace State Historic Site. Archived from the original on March 20, 2008. Retrieved April 5, 2008.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Collins, Glenn (April 29, 1994). "Berton Roueche, Medical Writer For The New Yorker, Dies at 83". The New York Times. Retrieved April 5, 2008. (Note that Roueché's date of death is derived from the date of publication for this article, which is April 29, 1994, and the fact that the article says he "died yesterday", which makes his date of death April 28, 1994. Also note that the article incorrectly says his age at death was 83; if he was born April 16, 1910, his age at death would have been 84.)
- 1 2 Balliett, Whitney (May 16, 1994). "Berton Roueche". The New Yorker. CondéNet. p. 11. Retrieved April 5, 2008.
- 1 2 "Full cast and crew for Bigger Than Life (1956)". The Internet Movie Database (IMDb). Retrieved April 5, 2008.
- 1 2 3 Gibson, Stacey (Winter 2008). "The House That Dave Built". University of Toronto Magazine. University of Toronto. Retrieved April 5, 2008. (last sentence of 8th paragraph)
- 1 2 3 Cowles, Matthew Dixon (May 11, 2007). "Book: The Medical Detectives by Berton Roueché". Mondo's Info. Retrieved April 5, 2008.
- ↑ U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men, 1940–1947
- ↑ 1910 United States Federal Census
- ↑ 1920 United States Federal Census
- ↑ 1880 United States Federal Census
- ↑ "Southwest High School Hall of Fame". Southwest High School Alumni Association. Archived from the original on October 14, 2007. Retrieved April 5, 2008.
- 1 2 Lerner, Barron H. (December 8, 2005). "Remembering Berton Roueché — Master of Medical Mysteries". The New England Journal of Medicine. 353 (23). Massachusetts Medical Society: 2428–2431. doi:10.1056/NEJMp058147. PMID 16339093.
- ↑ "Berton Roueche on LibraryThing". LibraryThing. Retrieved April 5, 2008.
- ↑ "The Literature, Arts & Medicine Database – Roueche, Berton". New York University. Retrieved April 5, 2008.
- ↑ Roueche, Berton (1996). Editorial Reviews for The Man Who Grew Two Breasts: And Other True Tales of Medical Detection. ISBN 0452274109.
External links
- Burton Roueche at IMDb (note the alternate spelling of his first name and the incorrect birth and death dates) (note the incorrect spelling of his last name)
