John Albedo

John Albedo is the pseudonym of physician-author Alan B Hollingsworth. Retired from patient care after a 45-year career in medicine (interdisciplinary breast cancer care), he continues to consult for biotech and imaging companies, searching for ways to improve breast cancer screening. His writing career has run parallel to medicine, starting in 1977, though it was 2001 before he experienced his first success in fiction with the best-selling FLATBELLIES (WW Norton) and its sequel UNIVERSITY BOULEVARD (WW Norton), with authorship by "A.B. Hollingsworth." In 2002, the coming-of-age novel FLATBELLIES was selected as one of the "Top Ten Golf Books of All Time" by a panel of 12 East Coast Sportswriters, adding to other accolades such as "Barnes and Noble Hot Books of the Summer" and a featured review in USA Today.

Writing as "Alan Berch Hollingsworth," his only true crime book was published by Pelican/Arcadia in 2017, entitled KILLING ALBERT BERCH, the story of the author's 30 y/o grandfather who was murdered by a mob in 1923, for breaking "sundown laws" in small town Oklahoma. Berch had hired an African American porter (also murdered) to work in the Berch hotel in an all-white town, during the era of peak membership in the KKK.

Web sites: www.alanhollingsworth.com and www.killingalbertberch.com.

Over the course of 22 years (with 7 years "off" for the true crime book), Hollingsworth worked on a medical trilogy under the pseudonym John Albedo, with this pen name specific for the 3 books, collectively referred to as THE BRAINBOW CHRONICLES. The books are highly integrated and dependent on each other, so it's strongly recommended to read the books in order -- NUTSHELL, CANNIBAL CLUB, & HEAVENLY BLUES.

See www.johnalbedo.com for reviews, awards, FAQ, and other interesting tidbits about the trilogy published by Black Rose Writing in 2021, 2022, & 2023. For a video trailer, visit: bit.ly/3HEUorb.