Frank G. Slaughter

Frank Gill Slaughter, who published as Frank G. Slaughter, was an American novelist and physician, born on 25 February 1908 and dead on 17 May 2001. According to the Open Library biography he was born in Washington DC, grew up on a farm near Oxford, North Carolina, took a degree at Trinity College in 1925 and studied medicine at Johns Hopkins University. While working as a physician in Jacksonville, Florida, he began writing fiction in 1935, and his first novel, That None Should Die, appeared in 1941. He went on to write almost 30 novels that drew on his experience as a doctor and on his interest in history and the Bible, and the same record credits his books with sales of more than 60 million copies. He also wrote under the pseudonym C.V. Terry.