She has coped with multiple sclerosis for more than two decades, and there isn't any aspect of her illness and its impact both on daily life and on the soul that she hasn't pondered and learned from. With lucidity, humor, and freedom from sentimentality, Mairs provides an upbeat account of life in a wheelchair.

In Waist-High in the World: A Life Among the Nondisabled (1998), Mairs describes in candid and sometimes pained ways the problems and rewards of life as a(as she describes herself) cripple. Living in a body undermined by degenerative multiple sclerosis (MS), she bends her agile mind and sharp tongue around the daily tasks that confront her. Mairs' writing, which is fierce and funny by turn, most often examines her own condition and experience. Her other early works include Plaintext: Deciphering a Woman's Life (essays, 1986), Remembering the Bone-House: An Erotics of Place and Space (a memoir, 1989), Carnal Acts (essays, 1990), and Ordinary Time (essays, 1990). Among her early works is In All the Rooms of the Yellow House (1984), her second poetry collection for which she received a Western States Arts Foundation Book Award.

Nancy Mairs is a leading feminist writer who has won acclaim for her poetry, memoirs, and essays. Born 23 July 1943, Long Beach, Californiaĭaughter of John Eldredge, Jr.

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