TESS GERRITSEN

(TWH MAINE “Mini MFA” All-Fiction 2023: Special Guest Reader, Faculty Reading) 

Internationally bestselling author Tess Gerritsen took an unusual route to a writing career. A graduate of Stanford University, Tess went on to medical school at the University of California, San Francisco, where she was awarded her M.D.

While on maternity leave from her work as a physician, she began to write fiction.

Her 1996 medical thriller, Harvest, marked her debut on the New York Times bestseller list and her novels have hit bestseller lists ever since. Among her titles are Gravity, The Surgeon, and Listen to Me. Her 30 novels have been translated into 40 languages, and more than 30 million copies have been sold around the world.

Her series of novels featuring homicide detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles inspired the hit TNT television series "Rizzoli & Isles. "

Now retired from medicine, she writes full time. She lives in Maine.