Author Mimi Baird—He Wanted the Moon

In midlife, Mimi Baird of Westwood met a surgeon who had known her brilliant physician father. The chance encounter prompted a quest to finally understand the life and legacy of the father she had never known. It also resulted in her book, He Wanted the Moon: The Madness and Medical Genius of Dr. Perry Baird.  This raw and unvarnished account – currently being made into an HBO series — chronicles Dr. Baird’s descent into madness as well as his daughter’s attempt to piece his life together and make sense of her own.

In a November 3 talk at the Needham Free Public Library the author, Ms. Baird, will tell the story behind her book. Ms. Baird was raised in Chestnut Hill and graduated from Colby-Sawyer College in New Hampshire.  It was when working at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center that she chanced to meet the surgeon who knew her father.

The book will be available for purchase and autographing at the conclusion of this event.  

This Program is sponsored by the Friends of the Needham Public Library. Registration is required, as we have a current capacity limit of 100. 

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