Peg Kehret

Peg Kehret (Margaret Ann Schulze, born November 11, 1936) is an American author, primarily writing for children between the ages of 11 and 15 e 13 in 1949, along with 42,033 other cases, which paralyzed her from the neck and down and resulted in a nine-month hospital stay. Peg had each of the three types of polio: spinal, respiratory, and the least common kind, bulbar. Her experience of the illness changed Kehret's life, as she describes in her memoir Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio. Most of Kehret's books are based on what happened in her life, like The Ghost's Grave, there used to be a small cemetery up the road where she lived as a kid with the same name on a grave stone as the one in the book.