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W. W. Norton & Company
September 2011
On Sale: September 6, 2011
120 pages
ISBN: 0393079643
EAN: 9780393079647
Kindle: B005CD2YJU
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Non-Fiction Memoir
An inspiring memoir of a Pulitzer Prize winnerβs 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 actβlife as a member of a family with not one but two dyslexics, countered by his intellectual and creative successes as a writerβreveals an inspiring story of the strengths of the human mind.
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