![]() ![]() The eight books of essays and memoirs Mairs has written since include Plaintext: Deciphering a Woman’s Life (1986), Carnal Acts (1990), Waist-High in the World: A Life among the Nondisabled (1997), Voice Lessons: On Becoming a (Woman) Writer (1997), and, most recently, A Dynamic God: Living an Unconventional Catholic Faith (2007). Her first book was a collection of poems, In All the Rooms in the Yellow House (1984). She found salvation both in writing and in Roman Catholicism, to which she converted in her thirties. Biographical and critical information in the following Gale. ![]() The personal difficulties that inform her writing include suffering a near-suicidal bout of agoraphobia and anorexia that led to six months spent in a state mental hospital and the later discovery that she was afflicted with multiple sclerosis. Reviewer: robert dorroh from Sonora, CA United States Nancy Mairs, with devastating honesty, chronicles life as a cripple (her choice of word) in poignant essays in 'Waist High in the World. Waist-High in the World: A Life Among the Nondisabled (1996). at Wheaton College, had a child, and earned M.F.A. Kathi Wolfe is a freelance writer living in Falls Church, Virginia. Even so, Waist High in the World is a compelling, insightful portrait of what it means to be disabled in America. Married at nineteen, she completed her B.A. Waist High in the World: A Life among the Nondisabled. Waist High in the World therefore has some class limitations. Mairs was born in Long Beach, California, and grew up in Boston. ![]()
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