Author: Amanda Skenandore

Amanda Skenandore draws on her nursing experience in historical novels shaped by American medicine and public health. Her publisher places The Nurse's Secret in 1880s New York, where a young grifter enters Bellevue Hospital's pioneering nurse-training school. Published in June 2022, the novel draws on the institution's early attempt to establish nursing as a disciplined profession. The Second Life of Mirielle West shifts to 1920s Louisiana and the Carville hospital, following a silent-film star's wife after she is quarantined there. Penguin Random House specifically connects the book's medical detail to Skenandore's nursing background. Her fiction also includes Between Earth and Sky, The Undertaker's Assistant, The Medicine Woman of Galveston and When No One Else Will. Across these works, invented protagonists encounter documented institutions and episodes in medical history.