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Growing up again life, loves, and oh yeah, diabetes

Mary Tyler Moore, actress and activist, relates the highs and lows of living with type 1 diabetes for the past forty years, while also tapping into the vast diabetes research network to talk to leading experts who are discovering new ways to control diabetes and its complications.

Main Author: Moore, Mary Tyler, 1936-
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : St. Martin's Press, c2009.
Edition: 1st ed.
Subjects:
Moore, Mary Tyler, > 1936- > Health.
Diabetics > United States > Biography.
Actresses > United States > Biography.
Summary: Mary Tyler Moore, actress and activist, relates the highs and lows of living with type 1 diabetes for the past forty years, while also tapping into the vast diabetes research network to talk to leading experts who are discovering new ways to control diabetes and its complications.
Item Description: Includes index.
Physical Description: xvii, 216 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
ISBN: 9780312376314
0312376316
Author Notes: Mary Tyler Moore was born in Brooklyn Heights, New York on December 29, 1936. She was a seven-time Emmy Award-winning actress, Tony Award recipient, Academy Award nominee, and a longtime activist and fund-raiser for diabetes research. She was best known for the television shows The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961-1966) and The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970-1977). She received a Golden Globe award for her role as Beth Jarrett in the movie Ordinary People and Tony Award for her performance on Broadway as a quadriplegic who wanted to die in Whose Life Is It, Anyway? She received a lifetime achievement award from the Screen Actors Guild in 2012. She wrote several books including After All and Growing up Again: Life, Loves, and Oh Yeah, Diabetes. She died of cardiopulmonary arrest on January 25, 2017 at the age of 80.

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