Tess Gerritsen

Fast Facts:

• Tess Gerritsen received her B.A. in Anthropology from Stanford University, and she received M.D. from the University of California, San Francisco.
  
  
• Tess's mother was the granddaughter of a popular Chinese poet.
  
  
• Tess practiced medicine in Honolulu, Hawaii.
  
  
• Tess stopped practicing medicine to raise her children and write full-time.
  
  
• Tess wrote "Adrift," a CBS Movie of the Week starring Kate Jackson.
  
  
• Tess wrote 9 romantic thrillers before turning to medical suspense thrillers.
  
  
• HARVEST, Tess's first medical thriller, was a New York Times bestseller.
  
  
• Tess got the idea for HARVEST following a dinner conversation with an ex-policeman.
  
  
• One of Tess's hobbies is playing the fiddle.
  
  

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