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John Murnane

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in Los Angeles, The United States

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Fiction, Historical Fiction, Mystery

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John Murnane is Professor Emeritus at the University of California, San Francisco, where he spent forty years running a cancer research laboratory and teaching cancer and cell biology to medical residents and graduate students. He received his PhD from UCLA in 1980.
After a career that exceeded his wildest expectations, retirement finally gave him the chance to do something he had always wanted: write novels.
His first novel, Blowing in the Wind, draws from his childhood growing up in the desert and the stories passed down by his father, a small-town newspaper editor. His second novel, The Rose and the Thistle, tells the fascinating true story of how vaccinations were created in the laboratory born from his lifelong belief that science become ...more

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Average rating: 4.3 · 10 ratings · 4 reviews · 3 distinct works

	Blowing in the Wind 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Irreproducible Results: A Scientific Murder Mystery 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2026	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Rose and the Thistle: A novel about the discovery of vaccines 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Stories from the desert

Many of the places in my story in Blowing in the Wind are important in my past. My parents lived, worked and were married in Trona, California. It is a mining town, which at the time was run by American Potash. They mined the salt on the dry lake. My father was editor of the Trona Argonaut. He knew many desert denizens, including hermits like Seldom Seen Slim, and miners like Lucky Baldwin. They v Read more of this blog post »

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John Murnane answered eric klein's question: What inspirers your books? My three novels are all very different, but all draw on my life experiences and address issues that were important in my life. The first was my childhood growing up in the desert and the Vietnam war. The second was the sacrifices scientists make and See Full Answer
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