Longlisted for the 2022 PEN America John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction, a "riveting and tightly argued" history of eugenics and its ripple effects, by acclaimed historian Elizabeth Catte.
Elizabeth Catte is a historian and writer living in Virginia, and the author of What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia (Belt, 2018). She is an editor-at-large for West Virginia University Press and the co-founder of Passel, an applied history and consulting company. She lives in Staunton, Virginia.
