The Woman with the Cure is a fictionalized biography of Dorothy Horstmann who made great sacrifices to develop a vaccine for polio.

The Woman with the Cure by Lynn Cullen

Genre/Categories/Setting: Historical Fiction, Biographical, Scientists, STEM, Polio, 1940s/1950s United States

Welcome to #ThrowBackThursday where I highlight an older review or post a current review of a backlist title. Today, I’m featuring compelling and biographical histfic, The Woman with the Cure by Lynn Cullen.

I’m linking up with Davida @ The Chocolate Lady’s Book Review Blog for #ThrowbackThursday.

My Summary:

In the 1940s and 1950s, America (and the world) is battling Polio, and the best scientists are in a race to find a vaccine. While her male colleagues are in a race to be first, Dorothy Horstmann is deeply concerned for the children who are suffering. She has her own suspicions and ideas of where the virus lurks, but the men overlook her. The Woman With the Cure highlights the scientist who sacrificed and worked relentlessly for the cure but didn’t receive recognition.

Sacrificial and relentless…

Continue here for my full review of The Woman with the Cure..

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QOTD:

Do you love biographical historical fiction?