Barry Werth

Barry Werth is an American author and journalist. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, GQ, the Smithsonian,^[1] and the MIT Technology Review.^[2] He has also served as an instructor in journalism at Smith College, Mount Holyoke College, and Boston University.^[1]

Werth received a Stonewall Book Award in 2002 for The Scarlet Professor, his biography of Newton Arvin, a literary critic who was publicly forced into retirement in 1960 during an anti-pornography drive by the US Post Office.^[3] The book was later adapted into the documentary film The Great Pink Scare,^[4] and as a 2017 opera by Eric Sawyer and Harley Erdman based on Werth's book.^[5]

His book Damages is commonly used as a case study for teaching medical malpractice in law schools.^[6][7]

Bibliography

• The Billion-Dollar Molecule: One Company's Quest for the Perfect Drug (1995)
• Damages: One Family's Legal Struggles in the World of Medicine (1998)
• The Scarlet Professor: Newton Arvin: A Literary Life Shattered by Scandal (2002)
• The Architecture and Design of Man and Woman: The Marvel of the Human Body, Revealed (2004) (with Alexander Tsiaras)
• 31 Days: The Crisis That Gave Us the Government We Have Today (2006)
• Banquet at Delmonico's: Great Minds, the Gilded Age, and the Triumph of Evolution in America (2009)
• The Antidote: Inside the World of New Pharma. New York: Simon & Schuster. 2014. ISBN 9781451655667. OCLC 859375019.

See also

• Vertex Pharmaceuticals