Charles Graeber

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Charles Graeber is an American journalist and author. He published two nonfiction books in the 2010s. He wrote the 2013 book The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder about the serial killer Charles Cullen, which was a follow-up to his 2007 article for New York magazine about Cullen, [1] [2] and the 2018 book The Breakthrough: Immunotherapy and the Race to Cure Cancer about cancer immunotherapy. [3]

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Graeber was born in the US state of Iowa and lives in Nantucket, Massachusetts, and Brooklyn, New York. Before becoming a journalist and author, he was a medical student and researcher and co-authored papers for scientific journals. [4] As a journalist, Graeber has written for numerous publications, including Wired , GQ , The New Yorker , Outside , and The New York Times . [5] The New York Times's Janet Maslin said Graeber "has been drawn to extremes throughout his reporting career", highlighting his Wired article about Kim Dotcom. [1]

Graeber's book The Good Nurse was adapted into the 2022 drama film The Good Nurse , produced by Netflix. Graeber met with the film's writer Krysty Wilson-Cairns and provided access to the materials he used for his book. [6] He is also one of the producers for the 2022 Netflix documentary Capturing the Killer Nurse which began streaming on Netflix on November 11, 2022. [7]

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  2. Staff (April 15, 2013). "Pretending To Be A 'Good Nurse,' Serial Killer Targeted Patients". npr.org. NPR . Retrieved October 26, 2022.
  3. Swartz, Mimi (January 7, 2019). "Could Immunotherapy Offer a Cure for Cancer?". The New York Times . Retrieved October 26, 2022.
  4. "Charles Graeber". Bookreporter.com. Retrieved October 26, 2022.
  5. Laplante, Matthew (July 10, 2013). "The Good Nurse". npr.org. NPR . Retrieved October 26, 2022.
  6. Davids, Brian (October 25, 2022). "'The Good Nurse' Team on Telling the Story of a Single Mom Who Stopped the Deadliest American Serial Killer". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved October 26, 2022.
  7. "Capturing the Killer Nurse - Film releasing in the United States on November 11th, 2022 at 3:00 AM EST". Netflix Media Center. Retrieved 2022-11-06.