
Lydia Kang is an author of young adult fiction, adult fiction and non-fiction, and poetry. She graduated from Columbia University and New York University School of Medicine, completing her residency and chief residency at Bellevue Hospital in New York City. She is a practicing physician who has gained a reputation for helping fellow writers achieve medical accuracy in fiction. Her poetry and non-fiction have been published in JAMA, The Annals of Internal Medicine, Canadian Medical Association Journal, Journal of General Internal Medicine, and Great Weather for Media. She believes in science and knocking on wood, and currently lives in Omaha with her husband and three children.

From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back
2017
ISBN 9781529101454
Cataclysm
2023
ISBN 9781529907827
Tales of Light and Life
2023
ISBN 9781368094719
Color outside the Lines
2019
ISBN 9781641290470
Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
2017
ISBN 9780761189817
Pseudoscience: An Amusing History of Crackpot Ideas and Why We Love Them
2025
ISBN 9781523524273
Control
2013
ISBN 9780142423615
Catalyst
2015
ISBN 9780698191426
K-Jane
2025
ISBN 9780063354623
Szarlatani. Najgorsze pomysły w dziejach medycyny
2017
ISBN 9788323344568
Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases
2021
ISBN 9781523515363
Among the Shadows: 13 Stories of Darkness & Light
2015
ISBN 9781516860654
A Beautiful Poison
2017
ISBN 9781536667868
The November Girl
2017
ISBN 9781633758261
The Impossible Girl
2018
ISBN 9781978631298
Opium and Absinthe
2020
ISBN 9781799755401
The Half-Life of Ruby Fielding
2022
ISBN 9781542020084
Desde otro punto de vista. El Imperio Contraataca
2022
ISBN 9786070788574
Patient Zero: A Brief History of the Science Stories Behind the World's Worst Diseases
2021

Toxic
2018
ISBN 9781640634244
Patient Zero
2021
ISBN 9781523513291荒诞医学史
2017

Opium a absint
2020
ISBN 9788027113019
Quackery
2017
ISBN 9781665226387