Desolate house autobiography of a face

Memoir by Lucy Grealy

Author	Lucy Grealy
Language	English
Genre	Autobiography/ Memoir
Published	1994
Publisher	Harper Collins
Publication place	United States
ISBN	978-0-544-83739-3

Autobiography of a Face is a memoir by Lucy Grealy in which she narrates her life before and after being diagnosed with Ewing's sarcoma.

The memoir describes her life from the age of nine to adulthood.

I immediately went down a rabbit hole, searching for everything I could get my hands on about Lucy, including her memoir, Autobiography of a.

I immediately went down a rabbit hole, searching for everything I could get my hands on about Lucy, including her memoir, Autobiography of a.

Lucy died in at 39 of a heroin overdose.

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I wrote it as a way to memorialize her and mourn her, and as a way of keeping her own important memoir, Autobiography of a Face, alive, even as I had not been.

''here'' from which the story is told, Autobiography of a Face is an autobiography without resolution.

In this memoir, she narrates the consequences of the disease in her emotional life as well as the physical implications that it had on her face, which resulted in a lifetime of self-consciousness. When interviewed about the memoir in 1994 by Charley Rose, the author explained that the book's principal theme was identity.^{[citation needed]}

The memoir first began as an essay, entitled Mirrorings, she was commissioned to write for an anthology.

Prior to its publication in the anthology Grealy sold the essay to Harper's Magazine w