Nancy Taylor Rosenberg

Nancy Taylor Rosenberg (1939-2021) was an American memoirist whose writing explored themes of personal loss, grief, addiction, and identity. She was raised in Maryland and earned a degree in English from Boston University. Her most acclaimed work, "Multiples" (1980), is a memoir about living with multiple sclerosis. It was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography and has been praised for its honesty, humor, and literary merit. Rosenberg also wrote "Mirror, Mirror" (1989), a memoir about her relationship with her dying mother, and "The Persistence of Memory" (1993), a collection of essays on writing, memory, and loss. Her writing has been widely anthologized and has received positive critical reception for its emotional depth, lyrical prose, and powerful exploration of complex human experiences.