Marion Morra is the Associate Director of the Yale Cancer Center in New Haven, Connecticut. She is Associate
Research Scientist at the Yale School of Medicine and Associate Clinical Professor at the Yale School of Nursing.
Marion is widely published, having written articles and authored books for both health professionals and the public,
with emphasis on health, especially in the field of cancer. She serves on major national committees for the National
Cancer Institute and the American Cancer Society.
The two authors who are sisters, have collaborated on five other books: three editions of the best-selling book
for cancer patients Choices (Avon Books, 1980, 1987, and 1994), Triumph: Getting Back to Normal When You Have
Cancer (Avon Books, 1990), and Understanding Your Immune System (1986). In 1993, the authors received
the Natalie Davis Springarn Writer's Award from the National Coalition for Cancer Survivors for "their valuable
contributions to the literature of survivorship and for their books, Choices and Triumph." They
also were awarded the 1995 National Health Information Silver Award, which honors the nation's best consumer health
information programs and materials, for Choices.
Potts, Eve :
Eve Potts has been writing on medical subjects for more than 30 years. Her expertise is in making difficult
medical information easy to understand. She has served as a medical writer and consultant to the Department of
Health and Human Services and many medically oriented companies and institutions. Her interest in history is represented
by another book, Westport A Special Place, 1987
The two authors who are sisters, have collaborated on five other books: three editions of the best-selling book
for cancer patients Choices (Avon Books, 1980, 1987, and 1994), Triumph: Getting Back to Normal When You Have
Cancer (Avon Books, 1990), and Understanding Your Immune System (1986). In 1993, the authors received
the Natalie Davis Springarn Writer's Award from the National Coalition for Cancer Survivors for "their valuable
contributions to the literature of survivorship and for their books, Choices and Triumph." They
also were awarded the 1995 National Health Information Silver Award, which honors the nation's best consumer health
information programs and materials, for Choices.
Review
"Engrossing...alternately hilarious and heartbreaking."
--San Francisco Chronicle
"Beyond its exuberant storytelling value, this book contains ideas as revolutionary as any since The Origin
of Species."
--Seattle Times
"A startling, compassionate, honest, heart-wrenching book."
--Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, coauthor of When Elephants Weep
HarperCollins Publishers Web Site, July, 2000
Summary
For 30 years Roger Foots has pioneered communication with chimpanzees through sign language--beginning with
a mischievous baby chimp named Washoe. This remarkable book describes Fout's odyssey from novice researcher to
celebrity scientist to impassioned crusader for the rights of animals. Living and conversing with these sensitive
creatures has given him a profound appreciation of what they can teach us about ourselves. It has also made Fouts
an outspoken opponent of biomedical experimentation on chimpanzees. A voyage of scientific discovery and interspecies
communication, this is a stirring tale of friendship, courage, and compassion that will change forever the way
we view our biological--and spritual--next of kin.