Bibliograph

Shadow doctor, Peter Calloway, writer ; Georges Jeanty, artist ; Mike Marts, editor.

Type

Label

Shadow doctor, Peter Calloway, writer ; Georges Jeanty, artist ; Mike Marts, editor.

Language

eng

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Shadow doctor

Nature of contents

comics graphic novels

Oclc number

1272893422

Responsibility statement

Peter Calloway, writer ; Georges Jeanty, artist ; Mike Marts, editor.

Summary

Years in the making, this is the true story of writer Peter Calloway's grandfather, Nathaniel Calloway, a Black man who graduated from medical school in the early 1930s.Unable to get work at any Chicago hospital (because he was Black) and unable to secure a loan from a bank to start his own practice (because he was Black), Nathaniel turned to the only other source of money in Prohibition-era Chicago: the Mafia, run by none other than Al Capone

Target audience

adolescent

Classification