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Anne Boyer

Author, cancer survivor, patient memoirist, poet

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Roles / TypesAuthor, cancer survivor, patient memoirist, poet

Websitehttps://www.nnlm.gov/reading-club/book/undying

Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Boyer

Summary

Poet, essayist, and Pulitzer-winning author of The Undying, a breast cancer memoir/essay collection. Anne Boyer is an American poet and essayist whose 2019 book The Undying chronicles breast cancer, illness, care, mortality, and the economics of cancer treatment. The book won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and is relevant here as cancer memoir and cultural criticism.

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Anne Boyer is an American poet and essayist whose 2019 book The Undying chronicles breast cancer, illness, care, mortality, and the economics of cancer treatment. The book won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and is relevant here as cancer memoir and cultural criticism.