Microbe Hunters

SIGNED COPY OF MICROBE HUNTERS, THAT SOLD MILLIONS OF COPIES AND REMAINS IN PRINT.

14x23 cm hardcover, black cloth binding, red title to spine, inscribed and signed by author on title page: For Jacquelyn Morron with best regards from Paul de Kruif, 5/7/61. [i-x], 363 pp, 8 black & white plates. Covers clean, binding tight, signature of Jacquelyn Morron top of title page, text pages age-toned, clean and unmarked; dust jacket top edge chipped, light wear to bottom edge, Very good in very good minus jacket in protective mylar sleeve.

PAUL DE KRUIF (1890 1971) was an American microbiologist and writer. Publishing as Paul de Kruif, he is known for his 1926 book, Microbe Hunters. In 1912, he graduated from the University of Michigan with a bachelor's degree, and he remained there to obtain a Ph.D., which was granted in 1916. He immediately entered service as a private in Mexico on the Pancho Villa Expedition and afterwards served as a lieutenant and a captain in World War I in France. Because of his service in the Sanitary Corps, he had occasional contacts with leading French biologists of the period. After returning to the University of Michigan as an assistant professor, De Kruif briefly worked for the Rockefeller Institute (for Medical Research). He then became a full-time writer. De Kruif assisted Sinclair Lewis with his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Arrowsmith (1925) by providing the scientific and medical information required by the plot, along with character sketches. Even though Lewis was listed as the sole author, De Kruif's contribution was significant, and he received 25 percent of the royalties. Many believe the characters in the novel represent people known to De Kruif, with Martin Arrowsmith (a physician, unlike de Kruif) possibly representing himself. It has been translated into at least 18 European and Asian languages and has sold millions of copies. By 1936, it had already sold about a half-million copies, an amazing number for a nonfiction book especially during the great depression and the interwar period. The phenomenal success of Microbe Hunters won De Kruif a platform from which to carry on his crusades for health. He became a staff writer on medical subjects for Country Gentleman and The Ladies' Home Journal, while he poured forth a stream of books on important health issues of the day.

Daniel Edward Koshland Jr. (1920 - 2007) was an American biochemist who reorganized the study of biology at the University of California, Berkeley, editor of the leading US science journal, Science, from 1985 to 1995, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Koshland wrote in an autobiographical article that he decided to become a scientist in the eighth grade after reading two popular books about science, Microbe Hunters by Paul de Kruif and Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis.

Product Info

Publisher: Harcourt, Brace and Co.

Year: 1926

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

First Edition

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