Synopsis
"Fascinating account of medical research...LaPlante shows how a brain scar may cause bizarre aggressive or sexual behavior-and works of profound creative imagination."
—Howard Gardner
"Readers intrigued by Oliver Sacks' Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat will welcome LaPlante's book...Thoughtful...Highly recommended."
—Library Journal
"LaPlante's descriptions of the human brain are wonderfully concrete, and her empathy for epilepsy's victims is clear."
—Kirkus Review
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About the Author
Eve LaPlante is the author of three ancestor biographies: Marmee & Louisa: The Untold Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Mother (Free Press, 2012), Salem Witch Judge (about the early abolitionist and feminist Samuel Sewall), and American Jezebel (about the colonial leader Anne Hutchinson). The editor of the first compilation of Abigail May Alcott's private papers, My Heart Is Boundless (Free Press, 2012), LaPlante has also written for The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, Ladies' Home Journal, Working Woman, Parents, and Country Living. She has degrees from Princeton and Harvard, and lives in New England with her family.
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