Theodore S. Drachman

Theodore Solomon Drachman (1904 – July 13, 1988) was a public health official and an author.cite web | url = http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DEFDB1230F934A15754C0A96E948260 | title = Theodore S. Drachman; Health Official, 83 &en; New York Times| accessdate = 14 May | accessyear = 2006] ^, [cite web | url = http://users.ev1.net/~homeville/msf/d37.htm | title = Mystery Short Fiction: 1990-2004 – Chronological List| accessdate = 14 May | accessyear = 2006]

Drachman attended the University of Minnesota, where he earned his M.D. in 1938, and then earned an M.S.P.H. at Columbia University in 1941.cite web | url = http://members.aol.com/dbryantmd/Page16.html | title = Roster of Physician Writers/Downman-Easmon| accessdate = 14 May | accessyear = 2006] He was a specialist in preventive medicine and epidemiology. He worked was deputy health commissioner for Westchester County in New York, and health commissioner for Columbia and Ulster Counties in New York between 1946 and 1979. He also worked as a consultant to various health organizations around the world.

As an author, Drachman's fiction publications included:
* "False Faces" (1931)
* "Cry Plague!" (1953)
* "Something for the Birds" (1958)
* "Addicted to Murder" (1960)
* "Reason for Madness" (1970)
* "The Deadly Dream" (1982)

"Cry Plague!" was an early Ace Double, and is well-known to science fiction bibliographers as the first Ace Double with a recognizably science-fictional plot. He also wrote one work of non-fiction: "The Grande Lapu-Lapu" (memoirs) (1972).

Drachman died on July 13, 1988, at the age of 83, at his home in Philmont, New York, of cardiac arrest.

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