Doctor Lopez

by Elliott Baker


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Hardcover
£15.25
Softcover
£9.75
Hardcover
£15.25

Book Details

Language : English
Publication Date : 22/05/2001

Format : Hardcover
Dimensions : 6x9
Page Count : 144
ISBN : 9780759615564
Format : Softcover
Dimensions : 6x9
Page Count : 144
ISBN : 9780759614369

About the Book

Dr. Roderigo Lopez was an unexpected choice to be Queen Elizabeth’s personal physician, since she had long insisted that none but English hands would touch any part of her.  Lopez was a Marrano (a Portuguese Jew who’d converted to Christianity) so his appointment can only be attributed to the various intrigues at work within her court.

Scholars of the Tudor age deny that there was any evidence that Lopez was involved in a plot to poison the Queen, the charge that led to his execution.  Doctor Lopez relies more on fact than fiction in telling of this great injustice in English history.

 


About the Author

Elliott Baker was born in 1922 in Buffalo, New York, graduated from Indiana University, and was an infantry rifleman in World War II. His works have been published in numerous countries and languages. These include his novels, A Fine Madness (1964), The Penny Wars (1968), Pocock & Pitt (1971), Klynt’s Law (1976), And We Were Young (1979), Unhealthful Air (1988), and Doctor Lopez (1995). A partial autobiography, Unrequited Loves, was published in 1974 and a collection of essays, Baedolatry, in 1992. He has written for both television and motion pictures (receiving an Emmy nomination for hit teleplay The Entertainer), and his fiction and non-fiction have appeared in publications ranging form GQ Magazine to The Elizabethan Review. In 1997, Indiana University awarded him its highest honor given to an alumnus, The President’s Medal for Excellence “for making a positive and profound impact in the literary field.”