Dr. Lindsey Fitzharris
Dr. Lindsey Fitzharris is a New York Times bestselling author, television host, and medical historian with a PhD from the University of Oxford. A regular contributor to The Wall Street Journal, Scientific American, The Guardian, The Lancet, and New Scientist, she is known for bringing the grisly, surprising, and deeply human history of medicine to life.
Her debut book, The Butchering Art (2017), a celebrated account of Victorian surgery, won multiple literary awards, earned international acclaim, and has been translated into 20 languages. In 2021, she hosted the Smithsonian Channel series The Curious Life and Death of…, exploring some of history’s most mysterious deaths.
Her follow-up book, The Facemaker (2022), about pioneering First World War surgeon Harold Gillies, was an instant New York Times bestseller and debuted at #4 on the Los Angeles Times bestseller list.
Lindsey reaches an audience of more than 750,000 followers across various social media platforms. She has appeared on CNN, BBC, C-SPAN, and NPR’s Fresh Air. Her appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience was #1 on Chartable’s Top Charts, with over two million views and downloads within the first week.
Her forthcoming book (October 2026), Sleuth-Hound, is a whirlwind tour of Victorian forensics from the perspective of the medical detective, Joseph Bell, whose methods and razor-sharp logic inspired the creation of Baker Street’s famous resident: Sherlock Holmes.
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