H. Leon Greene

Leon's first career was as a cardiologist. Educated at Johns Hopkins University where he received his M.D. degree in 1969, he served his medical internship and residency at Duke University. Heading back to Hopkins where he trained in cardiology, he joined the faculty at Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1973, where he served until 1979. He then ventured to Seattle where he worked at Harborview Medical Center, a part of the University of Washington, where he studied the causes and treatment of cardiac arrest. His duties there included patient care, teaching, administration, and research into cardiac arrhythmias. After a second career delivering medical care at a missionary hospital in Honduras, he has now turned his attention toward historical research. His training as a physician instructs his approach toward discovering the events and their causes in our past. His dedication to historical accuracy has been honed by decades of medical sleuthing into the causes and treatment for sometimes obscure diseases. When Leon is not at his writing desk, he is interacting with his four adult children, their spouses, and with his six grandchildren in Bellingham, Washington. He also enjoys hiking (only rarely lost), woodworking (still has ten fingers), photography (never published in National Geographic), birding (but can't remember their scientific names), and eating exotic foods (but nothing that is still moving). Judy, his wife for 51 years, is enthusiastically acting as his book agent. Leon reads mostly history, likes movies based on true stories, and refuses to watch anything animated. He formerly liked to snow ski (knees don't work too well any more) and jog (same excuse). He unabashedly uses his writing as an excuse to travel (must repeatedly go to the archives in Bermuda, right?). His most recent book The Confederate Yellow Fever Conspiracy explores the mind and motives of a previously respected physician who decided to use his medical skills for the diabolical purpose of spreading an epidemic to the North during the Civil War. It was the South's last chance for victory. Could it have succeeded?