Martha Weinman Lear was born in Boston and graduated from Boston University. She is the author of three books, including Where Did I Leave My Glasses? and the autobiographical Heartsounds, which detailed her husband’s life-changing heart surgery. Described as one of the most sensitive and moving accounts of a couple’s struggle against death, it was made into a film that won a Peabody Award, and it also won the annual book award from the American Association of Nurses. Lear lives in New York City.
Photograph by Albert Ruben.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- The Comfort Zone, a memoir, in Stories of the Week: 2011–2012