Natalie Robins

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Natalie Robins has published nine books, four of which are volumes of poetry published by the legendary Alan Swallow Press. Her first nonfiction book, Savage Grace, coauthored with Steven M.L. Aronson, won an Edgar Award for the best fact-based crime book published in 1985, and was recently made into a movie starring Julianne Moore. Alien Ink: The FBI's War on Freedom of Expression was the winner of the 1992 Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Award, as well as a New York Times "Notable Book of 1992." Sherwin B.Nuland, MD called The Girl Who Died Twice: The Libby Zion Case and the Hidden Hazards of Hospitals, published in 1995, a book that "will bring new reportorial and literary standards to its genre." Copeland’s Cure: Homeopathy and the War between Conventional and Alternative Medicine, was published in 2005. The Washington Post called it “an absolutely dazzling account.” Robins, also the author of Living in the Lightning, which won the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society's 1999 Chairman's Citation Award, lives in Riverdale, the Bronx, New York, with her husband, the writer Christopher Lehmann-Haupt. They have two grown children.

Selected Works

Nonfiction
Copeland’s Cure: Homeopathy and the War Between Conventional and Alternative Medicine
A social history of the 150-year battle between conventional and alternative medicine in America
The Girl Who Died Twice: The Libby Zion Case and the Hidden Hazards of Hospitals
"Investigative journalism at its best. A superb account of a case that, 'after a century of tradition,' began to change medical education... A serious study and a page-turner... Dazzling."
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Susan Garrett, The Washington Post
Alien Ink: The FBI’s War On Freedom of Expression
"Utterly absorbing and superbly researched... Anyone interested in the FBI's decades-long war against the American writer... owes Natalie Robins an enormous debt of gratitude."

--Henry Louis Gates, Jr., New York Newsday
Savage Grace
"A fascinating contemporary morality tale, from vivid real life."
–John Fowles

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