New York Times Bestseller Finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Biography "Janice P. Nimura has resurrected Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell in all their feisty,

Presents the true story of the first woman to earn a medical degree in the United States, who opened the first women-run hospital in New York.

Traces the early life of the first woman physician, relating the struggle women had to face in becoming doctors and practicing medicine.

Elizabeth Blackwell shattered the glass ceiling as the first woman doctor. Learn how she defied stereotypes and opened a medical practice to treat female patien