Author’s poignant polio story in new anthology
Birthday girl: Fran Henke at age three in 1946 just before she contracted life-changing polio.
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HASTINGS author and artist Fran Henke has a chapter in the new Australian anthology Growing Up Disabled in Australia.
The 320-page paperback has been published by Melbourne publisher Morry Schwartz’s Black Inc and is the fifth in a series of “Growing Up…” titles.
Released in early February, it has already been reprinted after attracting wide-spread interest and praise including for its editor Carly Findlay OAM, a Melbourne writer and disability activist who has a rare genetic disorder that affects her skin and hair.
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