ID
1594
Nationality
American
Occupation
Journalist
Author
Air pilot
Summary
Deafened at age 3 from an unidentified fever; attended regular public schools, attended Trinity College and the journalism school at Northwestern University. Resident of Chicago; holds a private pilot license. Newspaperman, then book editor of the Chicago Sun-Times; wrote What's that Pig Outdoors? (1990) and The Flight of the Gin Fizz (1997).
References
Deaf Persons in the Arts and Sciences, p. 210-212; Great Deaf Americans, The Second Edition, p.322-327; Extraordinary People with Disabilities, p.133-136; HiP Magazine, July/Aug. 1996, p.1, 8; Discoveries, p.17.
Dates
17 August 1940-