Tulse Hill not otherwise found growing in London. Samson Young, protagonist in Martin Amis's "London Fields" goes to Tulse Hill to buy drugs. Jason Strugnell, a fictional poet in Wendy Cope's "Making Cocoa For Kingsley Amis", lives in Tulse Hill and mentions it a couple of times in "his" poems. The "Tulse Hill Parliament", a political club, features in P. G. Wodehouse's comic novel "Psmith in the City". The author attended Dulwich College, which is in the vicinity. Noel Streatfeild's novel ""Tennis Shoes"" (1937) is written about a family who live in Tulse Hill. Tulse Hill and its surrounding areas are locations
Zachary Cope was here that he wrote his first book "Surgical aspects of dysentery" published in 1921. Cope was considered an "eminent authority" on acute abdominal disorders. Influenced by Augustus D Waller and Almroth Wright, he published many books including "Cope's Early Diagnosis of the Acute Abdomen" also in 1921. Cope is quoted to have said that "the good surgeon must feel for his patients, but never let this sympathy disturb his judgement or treatment". Cope is recorded to have been a small man who stood on a stool, named 'Cope's stool' when operating. Involved in surveying hospital facilities, medical staffing levels