Ira Rutkow is a general surgeon and historian of American medicine. He also holds a doctorate of public health from Johns Hopkins University. Among Rutkow’s books are several encyclopedic works on surgical history:
Surgery: An Illustrated History, named a
New York Times Notable Book of the Year;
American Surgery: An Illustrated History; and a two-volume bibliography,
The History of Surgery in the United States, 1775-1900. He is the author of three other books,
Seeking the Cure,
James A. Garfield, and
Bleeding Blue and Gray.
Gibson Frazier is an audiobook narrator and an actor who has performed with such distinguished off-Broadway theater companies as the Civilians, Les Freres Corbusier, the Vineyard, the Cherry Lane, New Georges, the Foundry, and Clubbed Thumb. He is a founding member of the Los Angeles–based theater company Buffalo Nights. He has been named as one of the Village Voice’s favorite actors.