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The whole disability revolution has come as a surprise. This book shows how that revolution freed me to become a human being, and how that revolution made a society become more human. - Mark O'Brien, from the prologue; Writing this kind of memoir requires - in addition to the sheer stamina and grit it must have cost Mark O'Brien with his great physical debility - a truly tempered personality and, dare I say it, greatness of character.... O'Brien conveys his pain, his suffering, his depression, his anomie - without resorting to tugging at our heartstrings. - Felice Picano, author of

"""The whole disability revolution has come as a surprise. This book shows how that revolution freed me to become a human being, and how that revolution made a society become more human."" - Mark O'Brien, from the prologue; ""Writing this kind of memoir requires - in addition to the sheer stamina and grit it must have cost Mark O'Brien with his great physical debility - a truly tempered personality and, dare I say it, greatness of character.... O'Brien conveys his pain, his suffering, his depression, his anomie - without resorting to tugging at our heartstrings."" - Felice Picano, author of"

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Mark O’Brien was the subject of the 1997 Academy Award–winning documentary Breathing Lessons. He was a published poet and cofounder of the Lemonade Factory, a California press that published poetry by people with disabilities. O’Brien died in 1999 at the age of forty-nine after completing a draft of How I Became a Human Being. Gillian Kendall is a writer. She has contributed to both Outright Radio and Sun Magazine; one of her short stories appeared in The Student Body, also published by the University of Wisconsin Press.

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