Category: Donna Seaman

• The Strange Case of Dr. Couney: How a Mysterious European Showman Saved Thousands of American Babies

  

  Told that his surviving newborn daughter would soon die just like her twin, William Conlin grabbed the premature child and, hailing a cab, fled. But he wasn’t going to the hospital, he was leaving it and heading to see Martin Couney who had no office but operated on the midways of carnivals and fairs such…

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  September 3, 2018

  Blue Rider Press, Book signings, Chicago Public Library, Cindy Pritzker Auditorium, Donna Seaman, Seminary Co-op Bookstore, Stuart Dybeck, Uncategorized