Laurence (Lorenz) James Vernon Ludovici (19 September 1910[1] – 24 April 1996)[2] was an Ceylon born British non-fiction author.
[3] He attended Royal College, Colombo and in 1931 he secured a scholarship to study at the Honour School of Modern History at the University of Oxford.
[4] During World War II he served with the Royal Air Force, firstly as an aircraftsman and received a commission in December 1941, performing fighter control and special intelligence work.
Kirkus Reviews states, that it was the first biography to be released on Fleming and that for all those interested in medicine and particularly valuable as a handy and readable reference for the physician, student and inquisitive layman.
[12] Kirkus Reviews stated, Through a mass of memoirs, trial transcriptions, newspaper data and pamphlets, author Ludovici highlights Morton's early Farmington experiments, then his first successful staging of ""a kind of sleep"" during a major Boston operation, and finally the bitter struggle to obtain patent rights via Congress, Europe, Medical Associations and one litigations after another, with the influential Jackson hounding and frustrating him at every turn.