Lewis Thomas was an American physician, poet, etymologist, essayist, administrator, educator, policy advisor, and biologist. He was a longtime contributor to The New England Journal of Medicine, and his essays were collected in several books. He received National Book Award in Arts and Letters and The Sciences for The Lives of a Cell.

Lives of a Cell
1975
ISBN 9780553237344
A Life in Medicine: A Literary Anthology
2002
ISBN 9781565848498
The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher
1974
ISBN 9782714413383
The lives of a cell
1974
ISBN 9780786108626