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O'Brien contracted polio in 1955 and spent the rest of his life paralyzed and requiring an iron lung. [4] In the iron lung he attended UC Berkeley, produced his poetry and articles, and became an advocate for disabled people. [4]
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Jul 11, 1999 · Mark O'Brien, the subject of an Academy Award-winning documentary about his journalism career, conducted mostly from an iron lung, died on July 4 at his home in Berkeley, Calif. He was 49....
Jul 7, 1999 · Mark O’Brien, whose career as a writer and poet despite life in an iron lung inspired an Academy Award-winning documentary film, has died at the age of 49.
Mark O'Brien. 1949–1999. Poet and journalist Mark O’Brien was born in Boston and raised in Sacramento, California. He contracted polio when he was six years old; the disease left him paralyzed from the neck down, and he used an iron lung to breathe.
Oct 19, 2012 · Writer Mark O'Brien spent most of his life in an iron lung. He was the subject of an Oscar-winning documentary, and now his story is told again in the semi-fictionalized feature The Sessions.
The Academy Award-winning Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien, a documentary by filmmaker Jessica Yu, explores the unique world of Mark O'Brien, the poet-journalist who lived for four decades paralyzed in an iron lung.
Mark O'Brien was a poet-journalist who lived in an iron lung for four decades. Incorporating the vivid imagery of O'Brien's poetry and his candid, wry and often profound reflections on work, sex, death and God, this provocative film asks: What is a life worth living?
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