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)
• Werth, Barry (2014). The Antidote: Inside the World of New Pharma. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 9781451655667. OCLC 859375019.

See also

• Vertex Pharmaceuticals

References

1. "Barry Werth". Simon & Schuster. 2014. Archived from the original on 2018-01-09. Retrieved 2014-01-25.
2. "Barry Werth and The Antidote: Reporting from Inside the World of Big Pharma". Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 2014. Retrieved 2014-01-25.
3. Page, Elaine Fetyko (May 5, 2008). "Stonewall Book Award Winners". Elmhurst College Library. Archived from the original on 2011-02-04. Retrieved 2014-01-23.
4. Yourgrau, Tug (2014). "Filmmaker Q&A: The Great Pink Scare". Independent Television Services. Retrieved 2014-01-23.
5. Karen Brown, "Opera Revisits 57-Year-Old 'Smut' Scandal At Smith College", WBUR, July 10, 2017.
6. Baker, Tom (2002). "Teaching Real Torts: Using Barry Werth's Damages in the Law School Classroom". Nevada Law Journal. Retrieved 2014-01-25.
7. Daily, Melody (2004). "Damages: Using a Case Study to Teach Law, Lawyering, and Dispute Resolution". Journal of Dispute Resolution. Retrieved 2014-01-25.