Essays Out Loud: On Having Adventures and a Necessary End

by Nancy Mairs

Read aloud by the outspoken and award-winning author, the two essays of this audio CD deal with issues of joy, disability, and death; written from the perspective of a severely disabled person with multiple sclerosis, a recent convert to Catholicism, and a wife and mother. Achingly authentic, the author decisively catalogs theological and psychological aspects of her world in gutsy and succinct prose.

Genres: Essays

1 pages, Audio CD

First published January 1, 2004

About the author

Nancy Mairs was an author who wrote about diverse topics, including spirituality, women's issues and her experiences living with multiple sclerosis. She received an AB from Wheaton College, and an MFA in writing and a Ph.D. from the University of Arizona.

She was diagnosed with MS when she was 28, and wrote several essays on her experiences as a self-described "cripple", including "On Being a Cripple," "Sex and the Gimpy Girl," and the memoir Waist High in the World.