![]() When Year of the Intern did not do particularly well, Cook began an extensive study of other books in the genre to see what made a bestseller. In 1979, Cook wed Barbara Ellen Mougin, on whom the character Denise Sanger in Brain is based. Cook began his first novel, The Year of the Intern, while serving on a submarine, basing it on his experiences as a surgical resident. from Columbia University in 1966, and completed postgraduate training at Harvard before joining the U.S. from Wesleyan University in 1962, his M.D. Cook spent his childhood in Leonia, New Jersey, and decided to become a doctor after seeing a football injury at his high school. ![]() ![]() Robin (Robert William Arthur) Cook, the master of the medical thriller novel, was born to Edgar Lee Cook, a commercial artist and businessman, and Audrey (Koons) Cook on May 4, 1940, in New York City. ![]()
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