Frederick Banting: Hero, Healer, Artist (Quest Library (Xyz Publishing)) - Softcover

Hume, Stephen Eaton

 
9780968816639: Frederick Banting: Hero, Healer, Artist (Quest Library (Xyz Publishing))

Synopsis

Frederick Banting was a surgeon and a decorated war hero when he had the idea to develop insulin in 1920, This achievement earned him the 1923 Nobel Prize for medicine, a knighthood, and the gratitude of diabetics around the world.

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About the Author

Stephen Eaton Hume teaches creative writing at the University of Victoria. He has published three picture books: Midnight on the Farm, Rainbow Bay, and Red Moon Follows Truck. His children's novel A Miracle for Maggie, available from Dundurn, was nominated for the Canadian Library Association's Children's Book of the Year. He has also published the biography Frederick Banting: Hero, Healer, Artist for young people.

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