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Michael Sims [1958-0] American
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Michael Sims is a noted American nonfiction writer, author most recently of The Story of Charlotte's Web. His other nonfiction books include In the Womb: Animals, Apollo’s Fire, Adam's Navel, and Darwin's Orchestra.

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I grew up in rural Tennessee. There were no bookstores in the town, but the school had a little library, and the town had a little library, each with a patient and enthusiastic librarian, and I raced into both as if they were doorways to another world.
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I was told as a teenager that I would never walk again.
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