Congratulations on your biography of Browning Ross. I never heard of him, that's probably why it's important that you did the scholarship necessary to write about his life. I consider myself a long-distance runner. Actually running until my 21st birthday, not achieving any acclaim but enjoying the ability to move quickly through my environment. After that, for the last 55 years running a different race, at first partially paralyzed, but still able to walk great distances, until getting in a wheelchair 27 years ago and then going only where power wheelchairs go.
But I still long for those carefree running days. Or even able to walk. You are lucky to be able to run and to write about it.
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
A book for every Muslim and everyone wishing to know about their way of life. The Diary of the Camp Manager at Mundihar following the South Asian Earthquake - October 2005. An account of life after the Earthquake in one of the largest of the 161 camp