DID WILL SHAKESPEARE'S DOCTORS ADDLE HIS BRAIN WITH cinnabar and mercury? Was Jane Eyre inspired by the plagued school that claimed the Brontë clan? Did writing 1984 kill George Orwell?
Dr John Ross of Harvard Medical School opens his surgery to consult with the likes of Milton, Swift, Melville, Joyce, and Jack London, exploring the history of our scribes (and their ills) as never before.