title: Nurse writer
text: # Nurse writer
  
  Nurse writers are nurses, primarily registered nurses (RNs), who write for general audiences in the creative genres of poetry, fiction, and drama, as well as in creative non-fiction. The published work of the nurse writer is analogous to that of the physician writer, which may or may not deal explicitly with health topics but is informed by a professional experience of human vulnerability and acute observation. The following is a partial list of nurse writers, grouped by century and arranged chronologically by year of birth.
  
  ## 19th century
  
  * Florence Nightingale (1820-1910)
  * Mary Livermore (1820-1905)
  * Emma Maria Pearson (1828-1893)
  * Katherine Prescott Wormeley (1830-1908)
  * Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)
  * Frances Margaret Taylor (1832-1900)
  * Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (1835-1905)
  * Sarah Emma Edmonds (1841-1898)
  * Susie Taylor (1848-1912)
  
  ## 20th century
  
  * Lillias Hamilton (1858-1925)
  * Helen Churchill Candee (1858-1949)
  * Lillian D. Wald (1867-1940)
  * Ellen Newbold LaMotte (1873-1961)
  * Mollie Skinner (1876-1955)
  * Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876-1958)
  * D. K. Broster (1877-1950)
  * Mary Borden (1886–1968)
  * Florence Farmborough (1887-1978)
  * Agatha Christie (1890-1976)
  * Nella Larsen (1891-1964)
  * Louise de Kiriline Lawrence (1894-1992)
  * Helen Dore Boylston (1895-1984)
  * Virginia Avenel Henderson (1897 - 1996)
  * Jane Arbor (1903-1994)
  * Mary Renault (1905-1983)
  * Betty Jeffrey (1908-2000)
  * Anne Baker (1914- )
  * Patricia St. John (1919-1993)
  * Charles Logan (1930- )
  * Grace Ogot (1934- )
  * Sharon Webb (1936-2010)
  * Abasse Ndione (1946- )
  * Elizabeth Berg (1948- )
  * Sue Monk Kidd (1948- )
  * Carol Gino (1941- )
  * Echo Heron ( )
  * Elizabeth Norman ( )
  * John Glenday (1952- )
  * Kathleen Pagana (1952- )
  * Helene Tursten (1954- )
  * Robin Oliveira (1954- )
  * Gisele Pineau (1956- )
  * Jo Brand (1957- )
  * Theodore Deppe ( )
  * Anna Jansson (1958- )
  * Teresa Medeiros (1962- )
  
  ## 21st century
  
  * Paul Genesse
  * Cortney Davis (1945-)
  * Theresa Brown
  * Josephine Ensign, FNP, MPH, DrPH.
  * Dr. Scharmaine L. Baker, NP
  * Wendy Brooks (1977-)
  