The Man Who Loved Clowns
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| Author | June Rae Wood |
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| Language | English |
| Publisher | G. P. Putnam's Sons |
| ISBN | 0-399-21888-2 |
The Man Who Loved Clowns is a 1992 novel by June Rae Wood about coping with mental disability in the family.[1] The story is based on Wood's personal experience of life with her brother Richard who himself had Down syndrome.[2][3] Wood also wrote a sequel, entitled Turtle on a Fence Post, set one year later.[4]
- 1995 Mark Twain Award in Missouri
- 1995 William Allen White Award in Kansas