Bill Hayes's Reviews
Reviews of Bill’s Work
Sep.13.2009
Published by New York Times Book Review
Henry Gray, the man behind Gray’s Anatomy (he had the help of a fellow doctor who created the drawings), became Hayes’s obsession. He finds out as much as he can about Gray’s life...
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Apr.05.2008
Published by British Medical Journal
Review of the Week
Body Builders
Reviewed by Colin Martin, independent consultant in healthcare communication, London
"A new book fleshes out the lives of the Victorian doctors...
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Feb.27.2008
Published by The Melbourne Age, Australia
Not many 19th-century textbooks are referenced in the title of a television series. But such is the literary afterlife and continuing medical relevance of Gray's Anatomy, which is...
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Feb.04.2008
Published by The New Yorker
Hayes’s history of the illustrated medical text “Gray’s Anatomy” coincides with the hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of its first publication. Fascinated by the fact that little...
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Jan.17.2008
Published by Nature: The Int'l Weekly Journal of Science
[In addition to telling the stories of Henry Gray and H.V. Carter,] The Anatomist also concerns the progress of a third anatomist: Hayes himself. Early on in his research, Hayes...
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Jan.15.2008
Published by The Washington Post
Like any good teacher, Hayes has a knack for metaphor. The still, close air in an anatomy lab is "like the gym of the dead." A lung is "a wet mound of gray taffeta...
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Jan.13.2008
Published by The New York Times Book Review
How do you write a book about someone about whom next to nothing is known? For most writers, the answer would be move on to the next subject. But Bill Hayes has an unusual set of...
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Dec.18.2007
Published by Associated Press
"The Anatomist" (Ballantine Books, 304 pages, $24.95), by Bill Hayes: Before surgery videos, medical dramas, House and McDreamy laid bare the body's failings, there was...
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Dec.18.2007
Published by San Francisco Chronicle
Bill Hayes has always been fascinated with the human body, but it wasn't until he audited anatomy classes at the University of California Medical Center that he got a first-hand...
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Mar.25.2001
Published by San Francisco Chronicle
There’s nothing that brings out the poetry in a writer like the unattainable. … Hayes, a lifelong insomniac, pursues sleep as avidly and lyrically as Nabokov pursued butterflies....
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Feb.06.2005
Published by San Francisco Chronicle
Bill Hayes is on his way to becoming one of those rare authors who can tackle just about any subject in book form. … Five Quarts [is] a breezy ride of a book that is disarmingly...
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Published by Publishers Weekly
At 150 years old, Gray’s Anatomy still sets the standard in medical textbooks, yet little has been written about its author, Henry Gray. Even less celebrated is Henry Carter, the...
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"One can learn to be alert to the extraordinary and press pause — to memorize moments of the everyday." ”
—"On Being Not Dead" - NY Times essay
About Bill
The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in nonfiction (2013-14), Bill Hayes is a frequent contributor to The New York Times and the author of three books: "Sleep Demons: An Insomniac’s Memoir"; "Five Quarts: A Personal and Natural History of Blood"; and "...
Causes Bill Hayes Supports
International AIDS Vaccine Initiative