Lydia Kang Explained

Lydia Kang
Birth Place:Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Occupation:Internal medicine physician and novelist
Language:English
Nationality:American
Period:2009–present

Lydia Kang is an American author of adult and young adult fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. She is also an internal medicine physician, and practices internal medicine in Omaha, Nebraska.

Life and education

Lydia Kang was born in Baltimore, Maryland.[1] [2] She graduated from Roland Park Country School in 1989 and received her BA from Columbia University.[3] She was a research assistant at the Columbia University Department of Biology during her undergraduate years and in graduate school.[4] She received her MD from New York University Grossman School of Medicine in 1998.[5] After completing a primary care internal medicine residency at New York University's Langone Department of Medicine, she served as chief resident from 2001 to 2002[6] [7] before staying on as an attending physician at Bellevue Hospital.[8] [9] In 2006, she moved to Omaha, Nebraska with her family and is an associate professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.[3]

Career

In 2009, she joined the writing workshop The Seven Doctors Project at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.[6] After writing two novels, she sold her third, a young adult science fiction novel, Control, to Penguin Random House in 2011[6] [10] which subsequently released in 2013. The sequel, Catalyst, was published in 2015.[6] In 2017, she released three more books, A Beautiful Poison, Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything (co-written with Nate Pedersen),[11] [1] [12] and The November Girl.[13] The November Girl won a 2018 Nebraska Best Book Award for Young Adult Literature.[14] Quackery was a Science Friday Best Science Book of 2017.[15] Her young adult novel, Toxic, was published in 2018 and was a YARWA Athena Award winner for speculative fiction and a Junior Library Guild selection.[16] She also published three more adult historical fiction novels, including The Impossible Girl[17] in 2018, Opium and Absinthe in 2020,[18] and The Half-Life of Ruby Fielding in 2022.[19]

Her second co-written nonfiction book, Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World's Worst Disease, was published in 2021 and received a starred review from Publishers Weekly.[20] It was the 2022 winner of the Nebraska Book Award in the NonFiction Popular History category.[21]

Her writing is included in the young adult anthology, Color Outside the Lines: Stories about Love.[22] Her short story, Right-Hand Man, is included in the 2020 anthology From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back, which describes the critical scene in The Empire Strikes Back in which 2-1B attached Luke Skywalker's prosthetic hand.[23] In 2022, StarWars.com announced the addition of Kang to their Phase II multimedia project[24] for the novel, Cataclysm.[25] In 2023, her short story "The Call of Coruscant" was released in Star Wars: The High Republic Tales of Light and Life, a Young Adult anthology.

She has helped other writers with medical accuracy in their fiction.[26] She has also published poetry and essays in JAMA,[27] The Canadian Medical Association Journal,[28] [29] Flatwater Free Press,[30] Journal of General Internal Medicine,[31] The Annals of Internal Medicine,[32] Great Weather for Media,[33] [34] and the Linden Review.[35]

Works

Young Adult Novels
Short Stories
Adult Novels
Adult Nonfiction

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Kang . Lydia . Quackery . November 16, 2017 . . C-Span.
  2. Web site: Kang . Lydia . Q&A With Lydia Kang . Women Writers, Women's Books . October 5, 2017 . October 5, 2017.
  3. Web site: Lydia Kang, MD . UNMC Nebraska Medicine . College of Medicine.
  4. Kang . Lydia . Marin . Melanie . Kelly . Darcy . Androgen Biosynthesis and Secretion in Developing Xenopus laevis . General and Comparative Endocrinology. 1995 . 100 . 3 . 293–307 . 10.1006/gcen.1995.1160 . 8775056 . free .
  5. Web site: Kang . Lydia . Dr. Lydia Kang, MD . US News Health . US News.
  6. Web site: Brown. Chuck. Dr. Kang Lands Fiction Deal with Penguin, credits Seven Doctors Project . University of Nebraska Medical Center . UNMC Newsroom . 10 January 2012. January 10, 2012.
  7. Web site: Kang . Lydia . Kang, Lydia . UNMC . January 10, 2012.
  8. Su . Yungpo Bernard . Residents' Work Hours . Annals of Internal Medicine . 2004 . 141 . 9 . 741 . 10.7326/0003-4819-141-9-200411020-00029 . 15520442 . November 2, 2004.
  9. Web site: Kang, Lydia . UNMC . January 10, 2012.
  10. Web site: Kang . Lydia . A Literary Prescription for Success . Omaha Magazine . December 19, 2018.
  11. Web site: Tales from the Annals of Medical Quackery . CBS News . April 26, 2020 . April 26, 2020.
  12. Web site: Kang . Lydia . 'Quackery' Chronicles How Our Love Of Miracle Cures Leads Us Astray . NPR . October 15, 2017.
  13. Web site: Kang . Lydia . The November Girl . Kirkus . November 7, 2017.
  14. Web site: Kang . Lydia . Celebrate Nebraska's 2018 Book Award Winners at December 1st Celebration . Official Nebraska Government Website . Nebraska Library Commission . October 10, 2018.
  15. Web site: Kang . Lydia . The Best Science Books of 2017 . Science Friday . December 8, 2017.
  16. Web site: Kang . Lydia . Toxic . JLG . Junior Library Guild . February 1, 2019.
  17. Web site: Kang . Lydia . 'The Impossible Girl' review: A Marvelous Medical Mystery . Hypable . September 19, 2018.
  18. Web site: Opium and Absinthe . Publishers Weekly . April 8, 2020.
  19. Web site: Kang . Lydia . The Half-Life of Ruby Fielding . Historical Novel Society . May 1, 2022.
  20. Web site: Kang . Lydia . Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases . Publishers Weekly . November 10, 2021.
  21. Web site: Kang . Lydia . Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases . The Nebraska Center For The Book . September 22, 2022.
  22. Web site: Kang . Lydia . Review: 'Color Outside the Lines' anthology . The Nerd Daily . August 4, 2019 . August 4, 2019.
  23. Web site: About the Author . Penguin Random House .
  24. Web site: Kang . Lydia . Star Wars: The High Republic Phase II Cover Art Revealed on Star Wars: The High Republic Show . StarWars.com . April 13, 2022 . April 13, 2022.
  25. Web site: Review: Lydia Kang Delivers a High Republic Masterpiece in Star Wars: Cataclysm. Star Wars News Net .
  26. Web site: Croft. Hallie. The Physician Who Pens YA Fiction Novels About Magic and Medicine . Op-Med . 9 January 2018. January 9, 2018.
  27. Kang . Lydia . The First Wake . JAMA . 2009 . 301 . 5 . 467–468 . Jama Network . 10.1001/jama.2009.61 . 19190306 . February 4, 2009.
  28. Kang . Lydia . Returns . Canadian Medical Association Journal . 2010 . 182 . 11 . E538 . CMAJ Group . 10.1503/cmaj.100434 . 220296624 . August 10, 2010. free . 2917968 .
  29. Web site: Kang . Lydia . A Lost Aunt . CMAJ Group . September 6, 2011.
  30. Web site: Kang . Lydia . A Nebraska Doctor Was Writing A History of Nightmare Pandemics. Then She Lived One. . Flatwater Free Press . September 24, 2021 . September 24, 2021.
  31. Kang . Lydia . An Infinite Fraction . Journal of General Internal Medicine . 2010 . 25 . 7 . 754 . 10.1007/s11606-010-1343-8 . 20383752 . 2881971 .
  32. Kang . Lydia . The Veil . Annals of Internal Medicine . 2006 . 145 . 12 . 932 . 10.7326/0003-4819-145-12-200612190-00012 . 17179062 . 42428639 . December 19, 2006.
  33. Web site: The Understanding Between Foxes and Light . Great Weather for Media . August 1, 2013.
  34. Web site: Q&A with Lydia Kang . Women Writers, Women's Books . October 5, 2017.
  35. Web site: Kang . Lydia . Lydia Kang, Check Your Head . The Linden Review .

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