Gary Presley

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Gary Presley


Born
Long Beach, The United States
Died
December 23, 2017

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Tom Wolfe, Richard Selzer, P.J. O'Rourke, Carl Hiaasen, Bruce Catton, ...more


I love words. Why? I don't know. Reaction to laconic male influences perhaps. It matters not. It matters to me only that I won an essay contest sponsored during the centennial anniversary of The Joplin Globe newspaper, and the essay was placed in a time capsule to be opened sometime shortly before the beginning of the 22nd century. Cool beans, huh? And I began writing more, selling to Salon.com, Notre Dame Magazine, and dozens of other venues. Now I have a book in print: Seven Wheelchairs: A Life beyond Polio. Hey, who else do you know who has used a wheelchair for 49 years? ...more

Gary Presley isn't a Goodreads Author (yet), but they do have a blog, so here are some recent posts imported from their feed.

Modern Love 18: "Would My Heart Outrun Its Pursuer?"

The actor Colin Farrell reads my essay published in The New York Times several years ago.

It still resonates with me, the essay, but Farrell's Irish lilt and the superb editing by the staff at WBUR deepen the essay's resonance. Read more of this blog post »
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Published on May 12, 2016 11:04
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Modern Love: True Stories o...

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4.19 avg rating — 14,237 ratings — published 2007 — 43 editions
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Seven Wheelchairs: A Life b...

4.21 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 2008 — 3 editions
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The View from Down Here

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2011
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