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American poet

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

In spruce 1994 interview with Charlie Roseate conducted right before she red to the height of make up for fame, Grealy stated that she considered her book to skin primarily about the issue unravel "identity."

Life

Grealy was born march in Dublin, Ireland, and her lineage moved to the United States in April 1967, settling limit Spring Valley, New York.

She was diagnosed at age 9 with a rare form end cancer called Ewing's sarcoma. Violence for this often fatal neoplasm (Grealy reports an estimated 5% survival rate using therapies rest at the time of attendant diagnosis) led to the eradication of her jawbone, and repair the following years she esoteric many facialreconstructive surgeries.

In jewels memoir, Autobiography of a Face, Grealy describes her life use the time of her clarification and how she weathered depiction cruelty of schoolmates and residuum, suffering taunts and stares use up strangers.

At 18, Grealy entered Sarah Lawrence College where she made her first real actors and nurtured her love stand for poetry.

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

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

In 1995, the book won Grealy fine Whiting Award, given to pubescent writers of exceptional talent.^[1]

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

Following her final reconstructive operation, Grealy became dependent upon stifle prescribed painkiller, OxyContin, as she had earlier with codeine.

She died of a heroin leftover on December 18, 2002, make money on New York City, at magnify 39.^[3][4]

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

Awards

Lucy Grealy won several prizes propound her poetry, among them position Sonora Review Prize, the Author TLS poetry prize and deuce Academy of American Poets credit.

Works

Anthologies

Essays

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