For Lucy Grealy (1963-2002), beauty was a fantasy, a private wish fraught with shame. Having lost half of her jaw, all of her hair and most of her life as a tomboyish school girl to surgery, radiation ...

I first learned about Lucy Grealy in Leslie Jamison’s The Empathy Exams. Grealy had written a book with a title that Jamison had, while an English student at Harvard in the early 2000s, imagined using ...

Ann Patchett's memoir about her intense friendship with fellow writer Lucy Grealy, who died of a heroin overdose in December 2002, is a portrait of addictive devotion. "If Lucy couldn't give up heroin ...

For 18 years Lucy Grealy has gone from surgeon to surgeon, from hospital to hospital, from New York to Iowa to Scotland in a desperate effort to “fix” her face. She’s 31 now, a young woman who early ...

Lucy Grealy, the author of a memoir about her experience growing up with an extreme facial disfigurement and the multiple surgeries to correct it, has died. She was 39. Grealy died Wednesday at a ...

In writer Lucy Grealy's 1994 memoir Autobiography of a Face, she told of the facial bone cancer that ravaged her jaw and the years of pain and treatment that followed: radiation, chemotherapy and ...

If you read Autobiography of a Face Lucy Grealy's riveting memoir of the childhood cancer that disfigured her face you could only hope this supremely talented young woman would someday learn to love ...

I knew Lucy Grealy for several years before she knew me, and now that she’s dead, I think of all the years I will know her again in this one-sided way, me thinking of her. We started college together ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Her memoir of her friendship with the poet Lucy Grealy, Truth and Beauty, is what drew RN's Robyn ...

She died last month at the age of 39. As a child, Grealy spent five years being treated for cancer, which left her face disfigured. She had over 30 reconstructive procedures and years of living with a ...