Crashing Through (34 page)

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

R
OBERT
K
URSON
earned a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from the University of Wisconsin, then a law degree from Harvard Law School. After working as a features reporter for the
Chicago Sun-Times
and
Chicago
magazine, he moved to
Esquire
as a contributing editor. His award-winning stories have also appeared in
Rolling Stone, The New York Times Magazine,
and other publications. He lives in Chicago and can be reached via the Internet at
www.robertkurson.com
.

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Copyright © 2007 by Robert Kurson

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Random House, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

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ANDOM
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OUSE
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This book is based, in part, on an article written by the author entitled “Into the Light,” which appeared in
Esquire
in June 2005.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Kurson, Robert.

  Crashing through: a true story of risk, adventure, and the man who dared to see / Robert Kurson.

  p. cm.

1. Blind—United States—Biography. 2. Eye—Surgery—Patients—United States—Biography. 3. Blind—Rehabilitation—United States—Case studies. I. May, Mike, 1953– II. Title.

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