Historian Beverly Gage on Her Rare Disease Diagnosis

Beverly Gage, Yale professor of American History and author, is more likely to be found on podcasts discussing her new (and wildly acclaimed) biography, “G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century". But in 2019 her life took an unexpected turn, as a chance encounter with a plant kickstarted what turned out to be a rare disease that had – inexplicably – lain dormant for 40 years.  

She’s not just a zebra, as Beverly explains in her recent New Yorker article, she’s a zebra with polka dots.