Medical historian and author Lindsey Fitzharris said that when she began writing “The Facemaker” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $30), she was concerned that it wouldn’t be well received.

Medical historian and author Lindsey Fitzharris said that when she began writing “The Facemaker” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $30), she was concerned that it wouldn’t be well received.

Kaite Mediatore Stover, the library’s director of readers’ services, will lead a discussion of Lindsey Fitzharris’ “The Facemaker” at 11 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 20, at the National WWI Museum ...

Book club: “The Facemaker” by Lindsey Fitzharris tells the story of plastic surgeon Harold Gillies, who helped the military in World War I.

The Facemaker. By Lindsey Fitzharris. Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 336 pages; $23.99. Allen Lane; £20 ...

As the year comes to an end, we're taking a look at some of the best writing of 2022. Jeffrey Brown sat down with literary critics Gilbert Cruz of The New York Times and Maureen Corrigan of NPR to ...

The World War I history of plastic surgery, and how it set the stage for today’s uses, is the subject of the new book The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon’s Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of ...

Medical historian Lindsey Fitzharris explores the incredible developments Gillies made in the field in her new book, The Facemaker. The results of his work went beyond the transformational aesthetic ...

Burt’s character seems suggested by New Zealand Dr. Harold Gillies (Harold Woodman’s first name may be derived from him), a battlefield surgeon during WWI chronicled in Lindsey Fitzharris ...

On this episode, we talk with medical historian Lindsey Fitzharris about her new book “ The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon’s Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I,” which traces ...