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Pamela Spiro Wagner

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in Tacoma, The United States

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Poetry, Biographies & Memoirs, Art

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July 2009

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A writer and artist who lives with diagnoses of schizophrenia and narcolepsy, plus CNS Lyme disease, Pamela Spiro Wagner graduated magna cum laude from Brown University and attended medical school for one year. Despite having spent at least twelve years of her life in psychiatric units, she has won many awards, including a First Place in the 2001/2 International Poetry Competition sponsored by the BBC World Service. In 2005, she co-authored, with her twin sister, a psychiatrist, Divided Minds: Twin Sisters and their Journey through Schizophrenia (St Martin’s Press, 2005), which won the national NAMI Outstanding Literature Award and was a finalist for the Connecticut Book Award. Her work has appeared in the New York Times Sunday Magazine, LA ...more

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	Divided Minds: Twin Sisters and Their Journey Through Schizophrenia by Pamela Spiro Wagner (Goodreads Author), Carolyn Spiro really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3,094 ratings — published 2005 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	We Mad Climb Shaky Ladders (LaurelBooks) 4.20 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Learning to See in Three Dimensions: Poetry 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	[Divided Minds: Twin Sisters and Their Journey Through Schizophrenia] [By: Pamela Spiro Wagner] [August, 2006] by Pamela Spiro Wagner (Goodreads Author), Carolyn Spiro, Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Even bullets are nothing compared to the ax murderers in people’s eyes.”
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