Chicago Sun-Times book editor -- a finalist for the 1981 criticism Pulitzer Prize -- has been totally deaf since the age of 3 1/2 due to meningitis. But this event focused his energies on the written word.
After studying at Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism (1964), Kisor took a job as a copy editor at the Chicago Daily News, where he eventually became book editor. In 2001, he was elected to the Chicago Journalism Hall of Fame.
In addition to his critical work, he has written two novels, What's That Pig Outdoors? (a memoir of his life as a deaf person), and Flight of the Gin Fizz (about a re-enactment in his Cessna 150 of the the first transcontinental flight across the US).
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