The story of Ron Hull, paralyzed in a surgical accident back in the dreaded polio epidemic days, was able to overcome most of the stigma and stereotypes and "pass for normal" for 30 years. As Ron's paralysis increased gradually through the next 20
This book has been eight years in the making. It is mostly a jumble of thoughts written down in old spiral notebooks and hidden in the bottom drawer underneath various manuals for software packages and hardware long since turned obsolete.
Why do we write? I suppose we do it in order that our voices be heard. I've been writing stories since I was kid (the first that I can remember concerned a young girl who was taken by a tornado to a strange land, and no, I didn't give L. Frank Baum credit! But geez, I was only five years old!).
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Michael Karol is an award-winning New York-based entertainment journalist and author. His books include his newest, The Lucy Book of Lists; Lucy A to Z: The Lucille Ball Encyclopedia; The Lucille Ball Quiz Book; The ABC Movie of the Week Companion; Sitcom Queens: Divas of the Small Screen; The TV Tidbits Classic Television Book of Lists; and the novel KISS KILL: A Vampire's Tale. He has interviewed a long list of performers, producers, and writers over the years, including blues legend Johnny ‘Guitar’ Watson; artist, writer and producer Peter Brown (he sang “Do Ya Wanna Get Funky With Me?” and wrote Madonna’s “Material Girl”); songbird Phyllis Hyman; actors Gale Storm, Susan Lucci, Denise Nickerson, John Noble, Jane Connell, Kaye Ballard, Eva La Rue, Doris Singleton, Kathryn Joosten, Cameron Mathison, and David Hedison; and behind-the-scenes movers and shakers like Wonderfalls creator Bryan Fuller; House, M.D.’s creator and executive producer, David Shore; I Love Lucy’s film editor, Dann Cahn; and director William Asher, who helmed I Love Lucy and Bewitched, among other classics. Michael is currently editor of Soap Opera Weekly and copy chief of Pixie, a fab tween magazine. His literary influences include Shirley Jackson, George Baxt, and Stephen King.
Birth Place
New Brunswick, NJ USA
Accomplishments
Michael has won many editorial and graphics awards, including a 2003 Eddie Award for Soap Opera Weekly, presented by Folio: magazine: Silver Winner for Outstanding Editorial Work, Consumer Entertainment; Cahners Publishing's Editorial Medal of Excellence in 1996 for his column "How'd They Print That?"; a 1992 Certificate of Merit from New York's Community Action Network (CAN) for his story about drugs in the workplace, "The Lows of Being High"; the Neographics Silver Award in 1981 and 1984; the Print magazine Regional Design Award in 1985 and 1988; the Art Direction magazine award in 1987 and its Certificate of Distinction in 1992; and the Art Director's Club 65th Annual Exhibition Merit Award in 1986. In addition, he has been a finalist in the prestigious NEAL writing competition in 1993 for "The Lows of Being High," and in 1996 for "How'd They Print That?"
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