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Musa Mayer is an author, advocate, and 14-year breast cancer survivor. She left a career as a mental health counselor to pursue an MFA from Columbia University in writing. While she was a student at Columbia, she published her first book, Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston, her own story of growing up in the New York art world of the 1950s. Less than a year later, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. She has since published two books on breast cancer: her 1993 memoir, Examining Myself: One Woman's Story of Breast Cancer Treatment and Recovery, Advanced Breast Cancer: A Guide to Living with Metastatic Disease (O'Reilly & Associates, 1998), the only book of its kind; and her latest, After Breast Cancer: Answers to the Questions You're A ...more

Average rating: 4.22 · 425 ratings · 31 reviews · 11 distinct worksSimilar authors
Night Studio: A Memoir Of P...

4.20 avg rating — 313 ratings — published 1988 — 3 editions
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Night Studio. A Memoir of P...

4.58 avg rating — 55 ratings3 editions
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Philip Guston

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After Breast Cancer: Answer...

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2003 — 3 editions
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Philip Guston: Nixon Drawin...

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Advanced Breast Cancer:: A ...

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1998
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Examining Myself: One Woman...

3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1993 — 3 editions
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Holding Tight, Letting Go: ...

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1997
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Night studio. Un racconto i...

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