Description: An indelible portrait of the fallout of childhood illness, separation from a protective mother, and first love, this memoir chronicles Shreve's stay at the Warm Springs sanitarium during the height of the polio epidemic.
Brief description:
Susan Richards Shreve's published novels include A Student of Living Things and Warm Springs. She has worked as a Professor of English at George Mason University and was previously Co-Chair and President of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation. She has received several grants for fiction writing, including a Guggenheim fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts award.