About the Authors
Little Martha Press profiles works by the Starnes Brothers—Lincoln and Benjamin—for an audience interested in the areas of history, medicine, and the arts.
Lincoln M. Starnes was born in Salisbury, Maryland, in 1962. As a boy, his interests were history, exploration, and motorcycles. As a young man he taught himself to play banjo, guitar, and harmonica and developed a love of jazz, rock ’n’ roll, and the blues. In his early twenties, he worked in Montana and Wyoming, where he climbed mountains and explored the backcountry in his off time. In 1985 he graduated from the University of Virginia with a degree in English. For the past twenty-one years, he has worked as a courier for FedEx. He lives in Georgia with his wife and daughter.
Benjamin W. Starnes is a professor of surgery, chief of the Division of Vascular Surgery and vice chair of the Department of Surgery for the University of Washington in Seattle. He has occupied the Alexander W. Clowes, MD Endowed Chair in Vascular Surgery since 2015 and served as division chief since 2007. Throughout his career, he has accepted over twenty-six national visiting professorships and has authored or coauthored over one hundred peer-reviewed publications. He speaks regularly at medical conferences around the world. Prior to joining UW Medicine, Dr. Starnes spent fifteen years in the United States Army as a vascular surgeon serving three combat tours in Kosovo and Iraq. He now lives on Mercer Island with his wife and two daughters.