Cook will participate at a question-and-answer session at the Alexandra Bookshop on Nyugati Square starting at 5pm on May 13. The session will be followed by a book signing from 6pm.
Cook graduated from the Columbia University School of Medicine and completed his training at Harvard. He has said he thinks of himself as a doctor who writes, rather than a writer who happens to be a doctor. Cook practiced medicine until recently and is currently on leave from the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary.
Cook's first book, The Year of the Intern, was published in 1972. Based largely on Cook's personal experiences, it offers an insider's look at the life of a medical intern.
Cook followed up with Coma in 1977. The best-selling book was made into a movie and launched Cook's career as a writer of medical thrillers. He has since written more than twenty books - page-turners that touch on sensitive issues such as organ transplants, gene technology and bio-terrorism.
Cook's latest novel to be translated into Hungarian was Crisis, published by Alexandra in 2006. Critical is due out in Hungarian in June.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI) / Photo: cumc.columbia.edu
