APRIL 2024 MAGAZINE

Robin Lindley interviews Lindsey Fitzharris who wrote The Facemaker about pioneering surgeon Dr. Harold Gillies. Today Dr. Gillies restored the mutilated faces of wounded British soldiers during World War I. Today he is widely considered to be father of modern plastic surgery.

It is hard to know where to begin, after such a seemingly endless stream of weather-related disasters and, most recently, the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria. Only yesterday did the earthquake recovery efforts there begin to move to the next stage of restoration.  

It isn’t every day that a federal bureaucrat gets featured in a film half a century after his service in the nation’s capital and more than a decade after his death. But filmmaker John de Graaf felt that Stewart Udall’s story needed to be heard by a new generation.