The novelist was known for his works on the history of medicine and Judaism. It was 95 years old.
Le Monde with AFP
The American writer and novelist Noah Gordon, known for his works on the history of medicine and Judaism, died on Monday, November 22, at the age of 95, announced his family.
m. Gordon had just celebrated “his 95 e anniversary with all the pleasure he owed to a long fruitful life”, wrote his loved ones in a statement broadcast on social networks. “The life and work of Noah have touched the lives of millions of readers in the world, his work will survive,” they add.
Success in 1986 with “The Physician”
Born November 11, 1926 in the Massachusetts (Northeastern United States), Noah Gordon serves in the American army at the end of the Second World War, before giving up his medical studies for the Journalism.
He works for the Boston Herald in the 1950s, became editor of Science magazine, before becoming an independent journalist and novelist.
His first novel, The Rabbi, published in 1965, is derived from his American Jew’s experience. He will write a last on Judaism in 2000, The Last Jew (the last Jew, in French).
He meets the success in 1986 with The Physician (the doctor of Isfahan), the first volume of a trilogy telling life in the XI e century of Robert Jeremy Cole, from his childhood in England Up to his studies of medicine in Isfahan, Persia, alongside the Avicenna master. The latest novel by Noah Gordon, The Winemaker (2012, not translated), takes place in the Catalonia of the XIX e century.