1896
A. J. Cronin, Scottish physician and novelist (died 1981)
A. J. Cronin, Scottish physician and novelist (died 1981)
A. J. Cronin, Scottish physician and novelist (died 1981)
A. J. Cronin
Scottish physician and novelist (1896–1981)
- Born
- 1896
Archibald Joseph Cronin (Cronogue) (19 July 1896 – 6 January 1981) was a Scottish physician and novelist. His best-known novel is The Citadel (1937), about a Scottish physician who serves in a Welsh mining village before achieving success in London, where he becomes disillusioned about the venality and incompetence of some doctors. Cronin knew both areas, as a medical inspector of mines and as a physician in Harley Street. The book exposed unfairness and malpractice in British medicine and helped to inspire the National Health Service.