Bio
BEN MATTLIN is an author, essayist, and senior writer for Financial Advisor magazine, based in Los Angeles.
His books, to date, are DISABILITY PRIDE: Dispatches from a Post-ADA World (2012); IN SICKNESS AND IN HEALTH: Love, Disability, and a Quest to Understand the Perils and Pleasures of Interabled Romance (2018); MIRACLE BOY GROWS UP: How the Disability Rights Revolution Saved My Sanity (2022); and the upcoming UNBOUND: Notes from a Reluctant Disability Activist (2025).
Praise for his earlier books:
• "Insightful, poignant, light-hearted and often hilarious" (Jay McInerney).
• "Literary gold" (Hamilton Cain).
• "Deeply intelligent, utterly honest, funny … a pleasure" (Elizabeth McCracken).
• "Urgent, deeply felt, and sometimes hilarious" (Andrew Solomon).
• "Moving and informative" (Kirkus Reviews).
His essays have appeared in Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, USA Today, Vox, CNN.com, and Self, and been broadcast on NPR's "Morning Edition." He's also a former contributing editor at Institutional Investor, the late Windows In Financial Services, Dealmaker, Buyside, and Individual Investor magazines.
Non-print credits include the Mark Taper Forum, Blonde and Brunette Productions, and the children's television program BIKER MICE FROM MARS.
He has a nice butt, too, but you'll never see it because he's always sitting in a wheelchair.
His writing has led to appearances on NPR's "Here & Now," NowThis News, ABC's Prime Time Live, CNN, E! Entertainment Network, and radio stations across the U.S., Canada, and the UK. He's also been quoted in The Daily Beast, The Wall Street Journal, U.S. News & World Report, USA Today, and Penthouse.
Born in New York City in 1962 with spinal muscular atrophy, a congenital muscle weakness, he attended the Walden School, Rudolf Steiner High School, and Harvard (graduating cum laude in 1984). He's been married for 35 years (to the same woman!), and they have two 20-something children, a cat, and a turtle.
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