Profiles the life of legendary athlete Wilma Rudolph, describing how she became a gold metalist at the 1960 Olympic games after, earlier in her life, she was told she would never walk.
The author remembers his youth in mental hospitals, his disfiguring acne, his love affair with another hospital patient named Laura, and his time, at age sixteen, spent living in the 1970s Manhattan gay scene with his uncle, writer Edmund White.
A critical study of the life and literary career of American author Russell Banks, analyzing his poetry, collected short fiction, and eight novels; and arguing that Banks is above all a political writer devoted to exposing the truth about life in the modern world.
Details the first hand experiences of a war correspondent soldier during the Vietnam War, depicting the horrors of bodies, drug addictions, and mental breakdowns.
The author provides insight to the role his brother played as a German soldier assigned to operations in Russia in 1943 and attempts to piece together remnants of his family records in order to understand his brother's experiences.
Presents a brief biography of Wilma Rudolph, discussing her childhood struggles with polio and scarlet fever, her Olympic triumphs, and her later years.
The true story of Orient, the guide and companion of Bill Irwin, the first blind man to hike the two thousand miles of the Appalachian Trail. Shows the reader, through the eyes of a dog guide, the challenges that a blind person faces every day.
