CNN CNN Newsroom November 22, 2009
>> well, larry, people have been asking me for years and years, even before mattie died, when are you going to share the story of mattie's life. when are you going to share what it was like in at home, in the hospital on the road with this child that we have as poetry, and we have his peace essays of the and i decided after he died that i needed to write this book sometime. didn't want to do it too close to his death, because i wanted the book to be a pure celebration of his life, his inspiration. and larry, in the last five years, as i've held these stories in my heart, i have watch...