IN PERSON Authors' Circle Presents Janice P. Nimura, Author of THE DOCTORS BLACKWELL In-Person
IN PERSON Authors' Circle presents Janice P. Nimura, author of THE DOCTORS BLACKWELL: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine, in Conversation with Gerald Howard.
Sunday, April 3rd at 3pm
Details subject to change
One event, choice of IN PERSON at Tuxedo Park Library (limited seating) or LIVE STREAM via ZOOM. Please register for only one!
Register via the library’s website calendar at www.tuxedoparklibrary.org or call the library at (845)351-2207.
In conversation with Gerald Howard, author Janice P. Nimura discusses her new book THE DOCTORS BLACKWELL, which details the lives of Emily and Elizabeth Blackwell, who paved the way for women to study and practice medicine in 1800s America.
- Date:
- Sunday, April 3, 2022
- Time:
- 3:00pm - 4:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Reading Room, Tuxedo Park Library
- Audience:
- Adults
- Categories:
- Authors' Circle
“Janice P. Nimura’s compelling biography…reclaims the sisters’ enduring contributions to medicine and to women’s history. In breathtaking prose…[The Doctors Blackwell] not only recovers the lives and work of Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell but also provides a colorful social history of medicine in America and Europe during the mid-to late-19th century.” - Bookpage
About the author:
Janice P. Nimura is the winner of a 2017 Public Scholar award from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the author of Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back, a New York Times Notable Book. She lives in New York with her husband and two children.
About the interviewer:
Gerald Howard is recently retired Vice President and Executive Editor from Doubleday Books. He is a recipient of the Maxwell E. Perkins Award. His essays and reviews have appeared in Bookforum, Lit Hub, n+1, The New York Times Book Review, and other publications.