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Jane S. Smith 19th and 20th century science, public health, literature, and popular taste, particularly US Office: 29 Harris |
Jane S. Smith received her Ph.D. in English from Yale University, specializing in 19th and 20th century fiction. She has taught at Northwestern in both the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences and the Feinberg School of Medicine on topics ranging from modern fiction to the history of public health. Her history of the first polio vaccine, Patenting the Sun: Polio and the Salk Vaccine (William Morrow, Anchor: 1990), received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Elsie de Wolfe: A Life in the High Style (Atheneum, 1982) was nominated for the National Book Critic’s Circle Award and remains the definitive biography of the pioneer decorator who transformed “good taste” from an attitude into an industry. Her novel Fool’s Gold (Zoland, 2000) won the Adult Fiction Award from the Society of Midland Authors. She is also the author of Jacoby’s First Case and Nightcap (fiction) and co-author of A Paralyzing Fear: The Triumph Over Polio in America; the documentary film to which this book is a companion received both an Emmy award for Best Research in a News or Documentary Program and the Eric Barknouw Prize from the Organization of American Historians. She is currently writing a book about Luther Burbank and the business of plant breeding at the beginning of the 20th century. |
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