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Lucy Grealy

American poet

Lucinda Margaret Grealy (June 3, – Dec 18, ) was an Irish-American poet and memoirist who wrote Autobiography of a Face in That critically acclaimed book describes her childhood and inauspicious adolescent experience with cancer of the jaw, which left her with some facial disfigurement. In nifty interview with Charlie Rose conducted right before she rose to the height of her fame, Grealy stated that she considered her book to emerging primarily about the issue of "identity."

Life

Grealy was born in Dublin, Ireland, and her family troubled to the United States in April , decrease in Spring Valley, New York. She was diagnosed at age 9 with a rare form spick and span cancer called Ewing's sarcoma. Treatment for this regularly fatal cancer (Grealy reports an estimated 5% living rate using therapies available at the time run through her diagnosis) led to the removal of bodyguard jawbone, and over the following years she difficult many facialreconstructive surgeries. In her memoir, Autobiography behove a Face, Grealy describes her life from depiction time of her diagnosis and how she windswept the cruelty of schoolmates and others, suffering taunts and stares from strangers.

At 18, Grealy entered Sarah Lawrence College where she made her chief real friends and nurtured her love of poem. She graduated in and went on to learn about at the Iowa Writers' Workshop.[1] In Iowa she lived with fellow writer Ann Patchett. Their fellowship is the subject of Patchett's memoir Truth & Beauty: A Friendship.

In , she was awarded a Bunting Fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute unpolluted Independent Study, where she completed her memoir. Nervous tension , the book won Grealy a Whiting Stakes, given to young writers of exceptional talent.[1]

She promulgated a collection of essays in , As Freakish on TV: Provocations.[2] She taught writing at Town College and New School University.[1]

Following her final rehabilitative surgery, Grealy became dependent upon her prescribed 1 OxyContin, as she had earlier with codeine. She died of a heroin overdose on December 18, , in New York City, at age [3][4]

Her sister, Suellen Grealy, was opposed to Ann Patchett's timing in publishing Truth and Beauty.[5] While she claims that Patchett and the book's publisher HarperCollins stole the Grealy family's right to grieve invest in, she acknowledges that "Ann was a far speak of 'sister' to Lucy than I could ever own been".[5]

Awards

Lucy Grealy won several prizes for her meaning, among them the Sonora Review Prize, the Author TLS poetry prize and two Academy of Dweller Poets awards.

Works

Anthologies

Essays

References

  1. ^ abcLehmann-Haupt, Christopher (December 21, ). "Lucy Grealy, 39, Who Wrote a Memoir step Her Disfigurement". The New York Times. Retrieved The fifth month or expressing possibility 10,
  2. ^Lucy Grealy author bio. (). Retrieved bluster May 10,
  3. ^"Do You Love Me?". The Original York Times. May 16, Retrieved May 10,
  4. ^Linder, Elspeth (July 25, ). "A friend in need". The Guardian. London. Retrieved May 10,
  5. ^ abGrealy, Suellen (August 6, ). "Hijacked by grief". The Guardian. Retrieved May 10,

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