Charles Graeber
Charles Graeber is an American journalist and author who published two nonfiction books in the 2010s. His 2013 book The Good Nurse tells the true story of serial killer Charles Cullen and was based on his 2007 New York magazine article about Cullen. In 2018 he published The Breakthrough, about cancer immunotherapy.
He was born in Iowa and lives in Nantucket, Massachusetts, and Brooklyn, New York. Before becoming a journalist, he studied medicine and did research, co-authoring scientific papers. As a writer, he has contributed to Wired, GQ, The New Yorker, Outside, and The New York Times. The New York Times reviewer Janet Maslin noted that Graeber tends to focus on extreme stories, highlighting his Wired piece on Kim Dotcom.
The Good Nurse was turned into the 2022 Netflix drama film The Good Nurse. Graeber met with screenwriter Krysty Wilson-Cairns and provided access to the materials he used for his book. He is also an executive producer of the 2022 Netflix documentary Capturing the Killer Nurse.
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