Awards & Winners

Lucy Grealy

Date of Birth 03-June-1963
Place of Birth Dublin
(Republic of Ireland, Ireland)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Writer
Lucinda Margaret Grealy was an American poet and memoirist who wrote Autobiography of a Face in 1994. This critically acclaimed book describes her childhood and early adolescence experience with cancer of the jaw, which left her with some facial disfigurement. In a 1994 interview with Charlie Rose conducted right before she rose to the height of her fame, Lucy states that she considers her book to be primarily about the issue of "identity".

Awards by Lucy Grealy

Check all the awards nominated and won by Lucy Grealy.

1995


Whiting Writers' Award
(Nonfiction and Poetry)