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Lucy Grealy

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born

June 03, 1963 in Dublin, Ireland

died

December 18, 2002

gender

female

genre

Biographies & Memoirs, Poetry

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Lucinda Margaret Grealy was a 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.'

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Books by Lucy Grealy

Average rating: 3.89 · 8,648 ratings · 821 reviews · 5 distinct works

	Autobiography of a Face 3.86 avg rating — 6,433 ratings — published 1994 — 11 editions	My rating:
	As Seen on TV: Provocations 3.34 avg rating — 74 ratings — published 2000 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Man Who Listens to Horses by Monty Roberts, Lucy Grealy, Lawrence Scanlan (Afterword) 4.03 avg rating — 1,944 ratings — published 1997 — 23 editions	My rating:
	Minding the Body by Patricia Foster (Editor), Sallie Tisdale (Contributor), Linda Hogan (Contributor) 3.63 avg rating — 102 ratings — published 1994 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales by Kate Bernheimer (author & Editor), Terri Windling (Goodreads Author), Deborah Eisenberg 3.74 avg rating — 96 ratings — published 1998 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Black Beauty by Anna Sewell, Lucy Grealy (Afterword) 3.86 avg rating — 49,580 ratings — published 1877 — 383 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Lucy Grealy

“Does something which exists on the edge have no true relevance to the stable center, or does it, by being on the edge, become a part of the edge and thus a part of the boundary, the definition which gives the whole its shape?”
― Lucy Grealy

tags: art , poetry

43 people liked it

“Sometimes the briefest moments capture us, force us to take them in, and demand that we live the rest of our lives in reference to them.”
― Lucy Grealy, Autobiography of a Face

18 people liked it

“I used to think that once you really knew a thing, its truth would shine on forever. Now it's pretty obvious to me that more often than not the batteries fade, and sometimes what you knew even goes out with a bang when you try and call on it, just like a light bulb cracking off when you throw the switch.”
― Lucy Grealy

tags: enlightenment , knowledge , memory , truth

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