Carol Cooper graduated in medicine from Cambridge University and developed her media career in tandem with clinical practice and teaching at Imperial College Medical School. She wrote as The Sun doctor for over twenty years and contributed to a range of titles as different as Punch magazine and The Lancet.
Carol has a string of non-fiction titles to her name, including child health books and an award-winning textbook of general practice. These days she also writes novels, the latest being The Girls from Alexandria, inspired by her cosmopolitan background. Her most recent book, The History of the World in 12 Objects, was published in October 2024. A follow-up, The History of the World in 12 Diseases, will be published in Spring 2026.
She lives in Hampstead and Cambridge, where she is a fellow of Newnham College. Carol was elected President of the Guild of Health Writers in 2014.
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