A Nearly Normal Life

In this “wise and engaging memoir,” the acclaimed playwright and historian recalls coming of age in the 1950s as a polio survivor ( Chicago Tribune ). In the summer of 1953, Charles Mee author was a carefree, athletic boy of fourteen. But after he collapsed during a school dance one night, he was suddenly bedridden, drifting in & out of consciousness, as his body disintegrated into a shadow of its former self. He had been stricken with spinal polio. When Mee emerged from the grip of the dise