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Perri Klass

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born

Trinidad and Tobago

gender

female

website

http://www.perriklass.com

genre

Health, Mind & Body, Parenting & Families, Crafts & Hobbies

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Perri Klass is a pediatrician who writes fiction and non-fiction. She writes about children and families, about medicine, about food and travel, and about knitting. Her newest book is a novel, The Mercy Rule, and the book before that was a work of non-fiction, Treatment Kind and Fair: Letters to a Young Doctor, written in the form of letters to her older son as he starts medical school.
She lives in New York City, where she is Professor of Journalism and Pediatrics at New York University, and she has three children of her own. She is also Medical Director of Reach Out and Read, a national literacy organization which works through doctors and nurses to promote parents reading aloud to young children.
source: www.perriklass.com

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Books by Perri Klass

Average rating: 3.48 · 844 ratings · 165 reviews · 14 distinct works

	The Mercy Rule: A Novel 3.08 avg rating — 184 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions	My rating:
	A Not Entirely Benign Procedure: Four Years As A Medical Student 3.74 avg rating — 144 ratings — published 1987 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Quirky Kids: Understanding and Helping Your Child Who Doesn't Fit In- When to Worry and When Not to Worry 3.91 avg rating — 81 ratings — published 2003 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Mystery of Breathing: A Novel 3.03 avg rating — 97 ratings — published 2004 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Letters to a Young Doctor 3.68 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Other Women's Children 3.55 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 1990 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Baby Doctor 3.91 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 1992 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Every Mother Is a Daughter: The Neverending Quest for Success, Inner Peace, and a Really Clean Kitchen by Perri Klass, Sheila Solomon Klass 3.28 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 2006 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Love and Modern Medicine: Stories 3.47 avg rating — 43 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Recombinations 3.74 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1985 — 4 editions	My rating: