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O'Brien contracted polio in 1955 and spent the rest of his life paralyzed and requiring an iron lung. In the iron lung he attended UC Berkeley, produced his poetry and articles, and became an advocate for disabled people. He co-founded a small publishing house, Lemonade Factory, dedicated to poetry written by people with disabilities.
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....
Mark O'Brien was a disabled poet and journalist who used an iron lung to breathe. He wrote about his life, disability issues, and sexuality in books and columns, and inspired two movies: Breathing Lessons and The Sessions.
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.
The Academy Award(r)-winning Breathing Lessons, 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’s iron lung, his “breathing machine,” was a whooshing 650-pound cylinder, the mustard yellow of kitchen appliances in the 1970s. It was hard to miss in his small Berkeley apartment.
Jul 7, 1999 · Born in Boston and raised in California, Mr. O'Brien contracted polio at age 6, leaving him paralyzed and able to breathe only through an iron lung.
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