“When the doctor told me I had MS, I suddenly felt the weight of my own and everyone else's expectations lift off my shoulders. So this was why I hadn't done better on the SATs, I thought. This was why I'd dropped out of grad school. This was why I'd been passed over for a promotion.”

American writer

Norah Vincent was an American writer known for her columns and essays in major newspapers and magazines. She wrote regularly for the Los Angeles Times, The Advocate, The Village Voice, and Salon.com, and her work also appeared in The New Republic, The New York Times, the New York Post, and The Washington Post. She drew wide attention in 2006 with Self-Made Man, a book based on her eighteen months living as a man. Her writing moved across politics, culture, and public life, with a reporter’s eye for experience and identity.