(Note to readers: The following was part of my presentation at the 2018 Fox Cities Book Festival, a session bearing the same title as this blog post. Many thanks to the FCBF, the Neenah Public Library, and Meghan Odegard for making the session possible.) I was shocked recently when someone close to me said, “You don’t save lives.” The comment hurt. I knew this person was speaking in black-and-white terms, and I will concede that I don’t save lives in the sense that an oncol