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Christy Brown

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Irish artist (1932-1981)

Person · Open Library

Born
1932
Died
1981
Works
25

Top works

  • Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Platinum
  • A shadow on summer
  • Kol ha-yamim kulam
  • to Sheila Kirwan Forde Hart
  • Ragli ha-śemalit

via Open Library + Wikidata

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
US
Active from
1933-05-03
Active to
2006-12-25

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
76
Total plays
185

<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Christy+Brown">Read more on Last.fm</a>

via Last.fm · Christy Brown

Key facts

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

via Wikipedia infobox

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Encyclopedic overview

Christy Brown (5 June 1932 – 7 September 1981) was an Irish writer and painter. He had cerebral palsy, and this allowed him to write or type only with the toes of one foot. 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.

Life

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Christy Brown” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.