Tony Holtzman
I started to write fiction after retiring as Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics, Health Policy, and Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins. My novels are based on professional experience, and American history. The Adirondack Mountains, where I still summer after many years, also serve as inspiration. My writing has benefited from workshops and cours.... more
I started to write fiction after retiring as Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics, Health Policy, and Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins. My novels are based on professional experience, and American history. The Adirondack Mountains, where I still summer after many years, also serve as inspiration. My writing has benefited from workshops and courses at Stanford University, New Mexico State University, The Great Courses, and the Adirondack Center for Writing, of which I was a board member (2015-18). I have taught writing to prisoners at the Adirondack Correctional Facility (NY State) and currently lead a writers group in Menlo Park, CA, where I winter. While at Hopkins, I wrote two books on genetics and public policy, co-edited several others, and published over 150 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals. I have four children and eight grandchildren. My wife, Dr. Barbara Starfield, died in 2011.
Education:
B.A. Swarthmore College, 1955 with High Honors
M.D. New York University College of Medicine, 1959
M.P.H. (Epidemiology) University of California Berkeley, 1984
