In 2014, Greg Marshall was diagnosed with cerebral palsy. According to Marshall, being disabled is a key factor that shaped his identity, and his memoir “Leg” isn’t your typical coming-of-age story.
Greg Marshall, author of "Leg," a memoir about growing up queer, with a disability, and in Utah.Greg Marshall’s memoir “Leg” is a coming-of-age story, the author said, but not a typical one.
Marshall lives in Austin, Texas, but his roots are in Utah. He grew up in Holladay, and graduated from Skyline High School in 2003. He worked as a journalist for the Park Record, in Park City. “I started to look back at my childhood in a new light. It was kind of like discovering this mystery, that I didn’t know was a mystery,” he said. “It made things like meeting Margaret Pellegrini seem completely different, more like an engagement with my disability and my identity.”to Walt Whitman’s monumental work, because “the stories kind of kept getting older and older.”
The lie felt a lot like “being cheated of autonomy in his lifetime,” Marshall said. “I had the trappings and treatments of having cerebral palsy, but in my own mind, I never connected it to disability in a larger sense as an identity.”
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