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Christy Brown
Irish writer and painter (1932–1981)
Christy Brown | |
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Born | (1932-06-05)5 June 1932 Crumlin, Dublin, Ireland |
Died | 7 September 1981(1981-09-07) (aged 49) Parbrook, Somerset, England |
Occupation | Novelist, painter, poet |
Nationality | Irish |
Period | 1954–1981 |
Christy Brown (5 June 1932 – 7 September 1981) was an Irish writer and painter whose cerebral palsy allowed him to write or type only with the toes of one foot.
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His most recognized work is his autobiography, titled My Left Foot (1954). It was later made into a 1989 Academy Award-winning film of the same name, starring Daniel Day-Lewis as Brown.[1]
Life
Brown was born into a working-class Irish family at the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin in June 1932.[2] His parents were Bridget Fagan[3] (1901–1968) and Patrick Brown.
He had twenty-one siblings, nine of whom died in infancy.[3] He was born with severe cerebral palsy,[3] so that he was a