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Bourdain, Anthony.

Summary: Recounts the story of Mary Mallon, an immigrant cook considered responsible for the 1904 outbreak of typhoid fever in Oyster Bay, Long Island, and describes her attempts to escape capture and institutionalization.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2001

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 614.5112 BOU

Summary: In 1906 in America it was first discovered that humans could transmit typhoid fever. This is a dramatization of the outbreak and a profile of Irish cook Mary Mallon, known as 'Typhoid Mary'. Quarantined against her will, the story reveals the newfound power of health officials to protect the masses, often at the expense of personal liberties.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Educational Foundation 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV TYP

Chibbaro, Julie.

Summary: In the early nineteen-hundreds, sixteen-year-old Prudence Galewski leaves school to take a job assisting the head epidemiologist at New York's Department of Health and Sanitation, investigating the intriguing case of "Typhoid Mary," a seemingly healthy woman who is infecting others with typhoid fever. Includes a historical note by the author.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2011

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Stacks, Call number: YA FIC CHI

Keane, Mary Beth.

Summary: "On the eve of the twentieth century, Mary Mallon emigrated from Ireland at age fifteen to make her way in New York City. Brave, headstrong, and dreaming of being a cook, she fought to climb up from the lowest rung of the domestic-service ladder. Canny and enterprising, she worked her way to the kitchen, and discovered in herself the true talent of a chef. Sought after by New York aristocracy,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2013

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Jarrow, Gail

Summary: Chronicles the story of the early 1900s typhoid fever epidemic in New York, providing details as to how its infamous carrier was ultimately tracked down and stopped.--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek 2021

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J614.5 JAR

Bartoletti, Susan Campbell

Summary: "What happens when a person's reputation has been forever damaged? With archival photographs and text among other primary sources, this riveting biography of Mary Mallon by the Sibert medalist and Newbery Honor winner Susan Bartoletti looks beyond the tabloid scandal of Mary's controversial life. How she was treated by medical and legal officials reveals a lesser-known story of human and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MAL

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 MAL

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