Lois Leveen holds degrees in history and literature from Harvard, the University of Southern California, and UCLA. She is the author of the novels Juliet’s Nurse and The Secrets of Mary Bowser. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Chicago Tribune, The Daily Beast, The Huffington Post, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and on NPR.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
The Hidden Dying of Doctors: What the Humanities Can Teach Medicine, and Why We All Need Medicine to Learn It
There is an equally heartbreaking loss of another young doctor in Paul Kalanithi’s book, one especially troubling because it received almost no commentary....
The Paradox of Pluck: How Did Historical Fiction Become the New Feminist History?
Poster from Diary of a Lost Girl (G.W. Pabst, 1929) ONCE UPON A TIME, women's lives might have been ...
