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Doctor Brandy Lain Schillace (born 1977[1]) is an American author, historian, and television host. She is the author of the books Death’s Summer Coat (2016), Mr Humble & Doctor Butcher (2021), The Intermediaries (2025), and a series of cozy mystery novels about autistic amateur detective Jo Jones that began with The Framed Women of Ardemore House (2024) and The Dead Come to Stay (2025). Schillace is autistic, and non-binary. She is a resident of Cleveland.
Career
[edit][edit] Schillace grew up in rural Ohio, and holds a Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University.
From 2014 to 2018, she was the Senior Research Associate of the Dittrick Medical Museum, in Cleveland.[2]
She is the founder and main host of the Peculiar Book Club (2020 - ), a podcast that has featured guests such as Mary Roach, Lindsay Fitzharris, Riley Black, and Haley Campbell, with regular music guests Charming Disaster.[3]
Her first book, Death’s Summer Coat (2016) was a survey of world grief and funeral rituals.
In 2021, Schillace's biography of surgical pioneer Robert White, who conducted experiments to transplant human heads, Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher, was published.
Schillace is the editor of the British Journal of Medical Humanities, and has written for publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Scientific American, and New Scientist.
Schillace has appeared as a guest expert on a number of television shows, including Travel Channel’s Mysteries at the Museum, NPR’s Here and Now[4], and The Unbelievable with Dan Aykroyd.
Dr. Schillace is a 2018 winner of the Arthur P. Sloan Science Foundation award, and the 2024 recipient of the The Royden B. Davis, S. J., Distinguished Author Award.[5]
Bibliography
[edit][edit] Death’s Summer Coat (2016) (Pegasus) 978-1681773247
Clockwork Futures: The Science of Steampunk and the Reinvention of the Modern World (2017) (Pegasus) 978-1681775180
Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher: A Monkey's Head, the Pope's Neuroscientist, and the Quest to Transplant the Soul (2021) (Simon & Schuster) 978-1982113773
The Intermediaries: A Weimar Story (2025) (W W Norton) 978-1324036319
The Framed Women of Ardemore House (2024) (Hanover Square) 978-1335014030
The Dead Come to Stay (2025) (Hanover Square) 978-1335121875
References
[edit]- ^ Grant Segall, The Plain Dealer (2016-03-17). "Brandy Schillace of Dittrick Medical History Center highlights birth, death and things in between: My Cleveland (photos and video)". cleveland. Retrieved 2024-11-20.
- ^ thedaily (2016-01-22). "Dittrick Museum's Brandy Schillace explains why she decided to write her most recent book". The Daily. Retrieved 2024-11-20.
- ^ "Peculiar Book Club » brandyschillace.com". brandyschillace.com. Retrieved 2024-11-20.
- ^ "Coronavirus Has Reshaped Funerals — And How We Mourn Lost Loved Ones". www.wbur.org. 2020-04-06. Retrieved 2024-11-20.
- ^ "Distinguished Author Award". www.scranton.edu. Retrieved 2024-11-20.