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Nebraska Authors

Steven M. Spencer

AKA: Steven Murray Spencer

Born 1905-07-03 Omaha, NE (USA)

Died 1985-02
Arlington, VT (USA)

Places Lived

Omaha, NE
Montana
Philadelphia, PA
Arlington, VT
Wilmington, DE

Author Of

  • Nonfiction

Keywords

Medical Sciences

Education

Attended University of Montana, 1923-1924
Attended University of Omaha, 1924-1926
Bachelor of Arts Degree, 1928, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Occupation

Reporter and Science Editor for the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, 1927-1941
Saturday Evening Post
Reader's Digest

Places Worked

DuPont de Nemours and Co., Wilmington, Delaware
Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, 1927-1941
Saturday Evening Post
Reader's Digest

Honors

Harvard University, Nieman Fellow, 1939-1940
George Westinghouse-American Association for the Advancement of Science
Prize for Distinguished Science Writing in Magazines, 1947
Albert Lasker Medical Journalism Award, 1956
Howard W. Blakeslee Award of American Heart Association, 1957
National Association for Mental Health Award, 1958, 1962

Associations

National Association of Science Writers, President, 1948
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Bibliography

Wonders of Modern Medicine. with Mary S. Spencer, 1953.
Outposts of Medicine. 1963.

Writer of more than 125 articles for Saturday Evening Post. Several articles re-printed in Reader's Digest

Co-author with wife, Mary S. Spencer, of articles on medical missions in Presbyterian Life

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