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Benjamin Spock

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Personal details and public facts.

Profession
Novelist
Died
Mar 15, 1998
Zodiac
Taurus
Born in
New Haven CT
About
An American pediatrician, he wrote the bestselling book, Baby and Child Care (1946), which helped raise a generation of Baby Boomers. His later works include Dr. Spock Talks With Mothers (1961) and A Teenager's Guide to Life and Love (1970).
Family
He was the oldest of six children born to a Connecticut family of Dutch descent. He married Jane Cheney during medical school; together, the couple had two sons, Michael and John.

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