Natalie Robins Books In Order

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Publication Order of Poetry Books

Natalie Robins is an accomplished published author.

She has had several of her books published. Four of them were volumes of poetry that were published by the Alan Swallow Press. Her first venture into nonfiction was the book Savage Grace, written with Steven M.L. Aronson. The book won an Edgar Award for being the best crime book based on facts published in 1985. It was adapted into a movie that came out in 2007 starring actress Julianne Moore.

She has also written other books that have been award winners and critically acclaimed. Alien Ink: The FBI’s War on Freedom of Expression was named a Notable Book of 1992 by the New York Times and won the 1992 Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Award.

Her book The Girl Who Died Twice was also praised by Sherwin B. Nuland, MD, who said that the genre will receive ‘new reportorial and literary standards’. Likewise, Copeland’s Cure was released in 2005, called a dazzling account by The Washington Post.

Natalie has also chronicled her own journey with cancer in her book Living in the Lightning. The book received the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s 1999 Chairman’s Citation Award.

Robins resides in the Bronx in New York. She has two grown children and a grandchild.

Living in the Lightning: A Cancer Journal is a nonfiction book from Natalie Robins. It is the story of how she found out that she has cancer and invites the reader into an intimate glance at her thought process after receiving this news.

The date is November 27, 1995. This was the afternoon that the author received her cancer diagnosis. She would find out that she had a form of Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. It was referred to as malt, which stood for mucous-associated lymphoid tissue.

Her oncologist told her that her case was not a ‘bad story’, due to the fact that her tumors had been categorized as indolent, which means slow growing. The author recounts her thoughts about being told that it is ‘not a bad story’, because she feels that everyone knows that this sickness is incurable and sums it up by saying “I have incurable cancer”.

This is the start of a journal by the author which first came out in serial form in Self Magazine. It has since been compiled and expanded into this book which brings the author’s own experience with finding out that she had Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma.

The author writes with realism and grace about her own journey when it comes to finding out that she had cancer and then figuring out how she was going to live with it. Whether they themselves have experienced illness or cancer or someone that they know has, or whether it’s never come into your life at all, all readers can benefit by reading this book and going along on an emotional and ultimately affirming journey with Natalie Robins.

The emotions, reactions, and observations that have been experienced throughout her diagnosis and treatment are recorded here, and the author asks questions and notes topics that she dealt with while dealing with her cancer. One question was how should she tell her mother, while another was wondering if his husband would get married again after she died.

Another question was what type of outfit should she wear to chemotherapy, and another was wondering what exactly would occur if anything if she decided to jump off of the table and leave during radiation treatment. Among the heartbreaking questions is whether Robins will ever be able to truly forget that she has cancer.

Whether you’ve gone through cancer, know someone who has, cancer has become so common that most Americans will either have been diagnosed with it or know someone who has gone through it. Grab a copy of this book to go along on this original and often uplifting journey along with Robins.

Copeland’s Cure: Homeopathy and the War Between Conventional and Alternative Medicine is a 2005 book from Natalie Robins.

One out of three individuals in America uses some type of alternative medicine today. This can be in addition to their conventional medications or substituting them entire. One of the more popular and controversial alternatives is homeopathy.

This was a Western invention that came from Germany to the United States in 1827. It was nearly four decades before it was first discovered that germs are the root cause of disease. This therapy uses small doses of natural substances. The remedies mimic the sick person’s symptoms and are thought to bring relief by coming into the vital force of the body.

A lot of homeopaths think that the more dilution, the more the medical benefit is. This is despite the fact that frequently not a single molecule from the original substance is left in the solution. Natalie goes into the story of homeopathy in the United States, how it became more accepted thanks to its gentle approach, and the historical advocates of the practice, with people such as Louisa May Alcott, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Daniel Webster, and Harriet Beecher Stowe all speaking out for it.

The reader will find out more about the war that started in 1847 between conventional and alternative medicine, which happened after the AMA decided to ban homeopaths from becoming members even though they had endured the same medical training as doctors who were practicing traditional medicine.

They will also find out how homeopaths began starting to not be considered real doctors and how the doctors who were considered ‘real’ were risking being put out of the AMA for simply even consulting with a homeopath.

Royal Samuel Copeland is at the heart of Copeland’s Cure. The maverick senator served for New York from 1923 to 1938. He served as a student of homeopathic medicine as well as conventional, became an eye surgeon and president of the American Institute of Homeopathy, was named Dean of the New York Homeopathic Medical College, and served as NYC’s health commissioner from 1918 to 1923.

We also see Copeland getting into the worlds of politics as well as medicine. He also gave homeopathy a sense of legitimacy through including its remedies in the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938. Read this book to go along with Robins as she delves into homeopathy in past, present, and future by getting a copy of Copeland’s Cure!