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Michael Palmer (novelist) was born on 9 October, 1942 in Springfield, Massachusetts, U.S., is an American novelist. Discover Michael Palmer (novelist)'s Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 71 years old?

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Occupation Physician, author
Age 71 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 9 October 1942
Birthday 9 October
Birthplace Springfield, Massachusetts, U.S.
Date of death 30 October, 2013
Died Place New York City, U.S.
Nationality United States

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His wife is Judith Grass (divorced) Noelle Shaughnessy (divorced)

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Michael Palmer (novelist) Net Worth

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1942

Michael Stephen Palmer was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, on October 9, 1942, to Milton and May Palmer.

He grew up with two younger sisters, Donna and Susan.

1943

Michael Stephen Palmer, M.D. (October 9, 1943 – October 30, 2013), was an American physician and author.

His novels are often referred to as medical thrillers.

Some of his novels have made The New York Times Best Seller list and have been translated into 35 languages.

1964

Palmer graduated from Wesleyan University in 1964 with a pre-med major, and with "sort of a Russian minor".

He then went to Case Western Reserve University for medical school.

Palmer trained in internal medicine at Boston City Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital.

Palmer once claimed he never wanted to be a writer.

He did not think he had much "flair" for it, even though he read in his spare time.

1978

In 1978, he read Robin Cook's medical thriller Coma (1977).

Palmer thought if Cook, also a Wesleyan graduate, could write a novel, then he could too.

When not writing, he worked part-time at Massachusetts Medical Society.

Before he began work on his first published novel, The Sisterhood, about euthanasia, Palmer was practicing treatment of drug addiction.

1985

Side Effects (1985), his second published work, was about the testing of unapproved drugs on a patient in Nazi Germany, but his most famous novel proved to be Extreme Measures (1991), in which a promising young doctor is threatened by a hospital elite after discovering the body's criminal acts.

1991

One, Extreme Measures (1991), was adopted into a 1996 film of the same name starring Hugh Grant, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Gene Hackman.

1994

A selection of his other books include: Natural Causes (1994), about a holistic doctor who prescribes medicine that actually kills patients; Miracle Cure (1998), about a drug for heart disease that actually is very dangerous because of its side effects; and Extreme Measures (1991) on which the eponymous 1996 thriller film starring Hugh Grant, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Gene Hackman is based.

Palmer married Judith Grass and Noelle Shaughnessy with both marriages ending in divorce.

He had three sons—Matthew, Daniel, and Luke.

2013

On October 29, 2013, Palmer unexpectedly suffered a heart attack and stroke, dying the next day in New York City.

In Palmer's memory, a tribute trail was named in his honor at Red Run Stream Valley Trail in November 2013.