Lou Ann Walker’s memoir, A Loss for Words: The Story of Deafness in a Family, is the winner of the Christopher Award. Senator Paul Simon read excerpts from the book into the Congressional Record. Reviews are available here .

Walker is the recipient of a Rotary Foundation award, a National Endowment of the Arts grant, as well as a Marguerite Higgins Reporting Award.

Other books by Walker include:

Hand, Heart & Mind: The Story of America’s Deaf People (Dial)
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Roy Lichtenstein: The Artist at Work (Penguin).
A New York Public Library Book of the Year.
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Amy: The Story of a Deaf Child (Dutton).
Named a National Social Studies Book Council Book of the Year
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