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W. W. Norton & Company
September 2011
On Sale: September 6, 2011
120 pages
ISBN: 0393079643
EAN: 9780393079647
Kindle: B005CD2YJU
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Memoir
An inspiring memoir of a Pulitzer Prize winner’s triumph
over disability.
Despite winning the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2008,
Philip Schultz could never shake the feeling of being exiled
to the "dummy class" in school, where he was largely ignored
by his teachers and peers and not expected to succeed. Not
until many years later, when his oldest son was diagnosed
with dyslexia, did Schultz realize that he suffered from the
same condition. In his moving memoir, Schultz traces his difficult childhood
and his new understanding of his early years. In doing so,
he shows how a boy who did not learn to read until he was
eleven went on to become a prize-winning poet by sheer force
of determination. His balancing act—life as a member of a
family with not one but two dyslexics, countered by his
intellectual and creative successes as a writer—reveals an
inspiring story of the strengths of the human mind.
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