Roy Porter "History of Science" for many years. In 2007 Roberta Bivins and John V. Pickstone edited "Medicine, Madness and Social History: Essays in Honour of Roy Porter" (Palgrave Macmillan). Several of the essays address Porter's work directly, and William F. Bynum appends a biographical sketch. Roy Porter Roy Sydney Porter, FBA (31 December 1946 – 3 March 2002) was a British historian known for his important work on the history of medicine. He retired in 2001 from the director of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine at University College, London (UCL). Porter grew up in South London and attended
William F. Brown (writer) William F. Brown (writer) William Ferdinand Brown (born April 16, 1928 in Jersey City, New Jersey) is an American playwright best known for writing the book of the musical, "The Wiz" (1974), an adaptation of L. Frank Baum's "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" with music and lyrics by Charlie Smalls, for which he received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical. His other works include "The Girl in the Freudian Slip" (1967) based on his 1959 novel, which played on Broadway for three days in May after a tour; "How to Steal an Election" (1968),