Howard Dully - Memoir

Memoir

In 2007, Dully published My Lobotomy, a memoir co-authored by Charles Fleming. The memoir relates Dully's experiences as a child, the effect of the procedure on his life, his efforts as an adult to discover why the medically-unnecessary procedure was performed on him and the effect of the radio broadcast on his life.

The book was critically well received. The New York Times described it as "harrowing", "one of the saddest stories you'll ever read." USA Today called it "at once horrifying and inspiring". The San Francisco Chronicle critiqued it as "a gruesome but compulsively readable tale, ultimately redemptive". In the United Kingdom, The Observer characterized the book as "a forceful account of his survival" that "sheds light on the man who subjected him to one of the most brutal surgical procedures in medical history". The Times described it as "uncomfortable reading", noting that "t is, given the circumstances, astonishingly free of rancour."