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In translation, he found his raison d’être

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Meghan O’Rourke

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Poet and memoirist Meghan O’Rourke is devoting her time as a Radcliffe Fellow to a new book, “What’s Wrong with Me? The Mysteries of Chronic Illness” after a diagnosis last year of Lyme disease. “It’s not a medical book, but it is trying to bring together a literary and cultural story of disease and how we think about disease and the experience of disease with some portrait of the contemporary medical culture," she said.

A journey into illness

Radcliffe Fellow O’Rourke at work on chronicle of her struggle with autoimmune disease

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DateDecember 9, 2014March 22, 2019