A Surgeon for WWI and WWII Vets Also Helped a Trans Man

Lindsey Fitzharris’s new book ‘The Facemaker’

Tucker Lieberman
4 min readJun 7, 2022

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THE FACEMAKER book cover — a man with his entire face wrapped, except for one eye, sees his reflection in the surgeon’s knife
The Facemaker

Released today (7 June 2022), Lindsey Fitzharris’s The Facemaker is about how the devastating violence of the First World War drove demand for facial reconstruction techniques, especially for soldiers who narrowly survived combat.

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Tucker Lieberman

Editor for Prism & Pen. Author of the novel "Most Famous Short Film of All Time." https://tuckerlieberman.com/