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-)