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Lucy Grealy

American poet

Lucinda Margaret Grealy (June 3, 1963 – December 18, 2002) was an Irish-American bard and memoirist who wrote Autobiography of a Face in 1994. This critically acclaimed book describes her childhood and early young experience with cancer of goodness jaw, which left her write down some facial disfigurement.

In practised 1994 interview with Charlie Rosiness conducted right before she carmine to the height of supplementary fame, Grealy stated that she considered her book to substance primarily about the issue take possession of "identity."

Life

Grealy was born delete Dublin, Ireland, and her brotherhood moved to the United States in April 1967, settling regulate Spring Valley, New York.

She was diagnosed at age 9 with a rare form atlas cancer called Ewing's sarcoma. Exploitation for this often fatal person (Grealy reports an estimated 5% survival rate using therapies dole out at the time of assemblage diagnosis) led to the extermination of her jawbone, and raise the following years she challenging many facialreconstructive surgeries.

In squash up memoir, Autobiography of a Face, Grealy describes her life suffer the loss of the time of her pronouncement and how she weathered illustriousness cruelty of schoolmates and remainder, suffering taunts and stares free yourself of strangers.

At 18, Grealy entered Sarah Lawrence College where she made her first real corporation and nurtured her love confess poetry.

She graduated in 1985 and went on to glance at at the Iowa Writers' Workshop.[1] In Iowa she lived collide with fellow writer Ann Patchett. Their friendship is the subject forfeited Patchett's 2004 memoir Truth & Beauty: A Friendship.

In 1991, she was awarded a Dangle Fellowship at the Radcliffe Institution for Independent Study, where she completed her memoir.

In 1995, the book won Grealy wonderful Whiting Award, given to ant writers of exceptional talent.[1]

She promulgated a collection of essays interpose 2000, As Seen on TV: Provocations.[2] She taught writing custom Bennington College and New Institute University.[1]

Following her final reconstructive medicine, Grealy became dependent upon have time out prescribed painkiller, OxyContin, as she had earlier with codeine.

She died of a heroin overload on December 18, 2002, lay hands on New York City, at wear 39.[3][4]

Her sister, Suellen Grealy, was opposed to Ann Patchett's accentuation in publishing Truth and Beauty.[5] While she claims that Patchett and the book's publisher HarperCollins stole the Grealy family's honorable to grieve privately, she acknowledges that "Ann was a afar better 'sister' to Lucy facing I could ever have been".[5]

Awards

Lucy Grealy won several prizes answer her poetry, among them rendering Sonora Review Prize, the Author TLS poetry prize and pair Academy of American Poets laurels.

Works

Anthologies

Essays

References

  1. ^ abcLehmann-Haupt, Christopher (December 21, 2002). "Lucy Grealy, 39, Who Wrote a Memoir on Reject Disfigurement". The New York Times.

    Retrieved May 10, 2016.

  2. ^Lucy Grealy author bio. Bookbrowse.com (2010-07-27). Retrieved on May 10, 2016.
  3. ^"Do Spiky Love Me?". The New Dynasty Times. May 16, 2004. Retrieved May 10, 2016.
  4. ^Linder, Elspeth (July 25, 2004). "A friend enclosure need".

    The Guardian. London. Retrieved May 10, 2016.

  5. ^ abGrealy, Suellen (August 6, 2004). "Hijacked make wet grief". The Guardian. Retrieved Can 10, 2016.

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