They center on the enduring environmental and political issues surrounding his long-time summer vacation venue in upstate New York. The first three, his “Adirondack Trilogy”- Axton Landing, The Railroad and Forever Wild -came out in 2011, 20, respectively. Following a distinguished, half-century career as a pediatrician and geneticist-including the 1989 publication of Proceed with Caution: Predicting Genetic Risks in the Recombinant DNA Era-he has made up for lost time by publishing four novels in six years. “I had hoped to be a journalist when I was in high school and college in the 1950s and that never materialized,” says Holtzman, 83, now a professor emeritus of pediatrics. “Medicine was sort of a fallback career,” says recently minted novelist Neil “Tony” Holtzman (HS faculty, pediatrics, 1959–2002) with a chuckle. Tony Holtzman’s latest novel was inspired by the genetics revolution.
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