About Marisa Haetzman
Born 1968. Marisa Haetzman is a novelist, writer, anesthesiologist, physician and medical historian.
Dr Marisa Haetzman (born 1968) is an anaesthetist and published author. Together with her husband Chris Brookmyre, she has written several historical fiction novels under the joint pen name Ambrose Parry.
Education She studied at the University of Glasgow, during which she won the Hunter Medal for Pharmacology. She graduated with a medical degree in 1990. The stories are set during the era following the discovery of chloroform by James Young Simpson.
Personal life She met her husband Chris Brookmyre in 1985 at Glasgow University on a walking trip organised by the University Catholic Chaplaincy Centre. They have one son (b.2000).
She has a sister who lives in Australia. In 2023, she was reported as living in Scotland.
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Scottish writer and anaesthetist
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Marisa Haetzman was born in 1968.
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Marisa Haetzman is a novelist, writer, anesthesiologist, physician and medical historian.
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