New York Times bestselling author Dr. Lindsey Fitzharris will join JCPL at The Church on Jefferson.

Her debut book, The Butchering Art, a celebrated account of Victorian surgery, won multiple literary awards, earned international acclaim and has been translated into 20 languages. In 2021, she hosted the Smithsonian Channel series The Curious Life and Death of…, exploring some of history’s most mysterious deaths.

Her follow-up book, The Facemaker, about pioneering First World War surgeon Harold Gillies, was an instant New York Times bestseller.