Lucy Grealy, the author of a memoir about her experience growing up with an extreme facial disfigurement and the multiple surgeries to correct it, has died. She was 39. Grealy died Wednesday at a ...

I first read Lucy Grealy’s memoir, “Autobiography of a Face,” in 2014, when I was in my mid-20s and had just emerged from nearly four years of treatment for leukemia. I had imagined life after cancer ...