Wendy Moore

Wendy Moore is an English journalist, author, and historian. She has produced works on the English nobility, social history and the history of medicine. Her first work, The Knife Man, was adapted as a TV pilot by AMC but did not go further. Her second book, Wedlock, is currently being optioned for TV.

Career Moore graduated from Harlow College (then Harlow Technical College), and took her first job at a newspaper at 19 in Buckinghamshire. She later became a crime reporter, investigating incidents such as the Dennis Nilsen murders, as well as a health reporter.

Health and medical writing Her work in researching medical topics soon interested her in the health field as well as the history of medicine; she dedicated the rest of her career to writing about medical topics. and History Today.

In 1999, Moore earned a diploma in the history of medicine from the Society of Apothecaries and received the Maccabean prize for best dissertation. Her biography of 18th-century Scottish surgeon John Hunter was published as her first book, The Knife Man, in 2005. The book received positive reviews and was awarded the 2005 Medical Journalists Open Book Award. As of 2012, The Knife Man was being adapted by A History of Violence director David Cronenberg as his first television credit.

quoted = 1| quote = As well as telling Mary Eleanor’s remarkable story I had to bone up on 18th century law, botany, crime and domestic violence. I visited Scotland seven times to view the Strathmore archives, and Durham several times to see the Bowes family papers, as well as making countless visits to the British Library. is said to have inspired Thackeray's The Luck of Barry Lyndon. Describing the book as "meticulously researched", The Guardians Katie Toms believed it was "ripe for film adaptation." Wedlock was also reviewed by The Independent, The Daily Telegraph, and The New York Times, among others. The book was featured on Channel 4's book club in 2010, and received a sales boost. It was described in one review as 'bringing together painstaking research with gripping storytelling.' — —Wendy Moore on her second book, Wedlock

Personal life Moore was born in Derbyshire. She lives in southeast London with her journalist husband and two children.

Works Endell Street: The Women Who Ran Britain’s Trailblazing Military Hospital (Atlantic Books, 2020) - BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week in 2020 The Mesmerist: The Society Doctor Who Held Victorian London Spellbound (W&N, 2017)

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