author
Sam McClatchie
b. 1915
A physician who also wrote fiction, he moved between medicine and imaginative storytelling with unusual ease. His work ranges from early novels to later books on public health, giving readers a glimpse of a writer with broad interests and a practical cast of mind.
2 Audiobooks
The last vial
by Sam McClatchie
Mother America
by Sam McClatchie
About the author
Sam McClatchie was an American author and physician born in 1915. Project Gutenberg’s edition of Mother America identifies him as “Sam McClatchie, M.D.,” and library records connect him with later nonfiction on health and preventive medicine.
His writing appears to have covered more than one field. Mother America was published in the 1940s, while a later book, Misdirected Medicine (1973), shows his interest in public health and the way medicine is practiced and understood.
That mix of fiction and medical writing makes his career especially interesting: he was not only telling stories, but also engaging with real-world questions about health and society. Even from the limited surviving records, he comes across as a writer who brought a doctor’s perspective to a wide range of subjects.