Mattie J.T. Stepanek papers
Language: eng
Subjects: American poetry; Muscular dystrophy; Poetry
Description: Presentation volume given to the Library of Congress containing copies of handwritten poems, transcriptions of poems, drawings, photographs, and a newspaper clipping written by and concerning ten-year-old Stepanek who suffered from mitochondrial myopathy, a form of muscular dystrophy.
Notes: Open to research.

Transfer, Library of Congress Poetry and Literature Center, 2008.

Poet and Goodwill Ambassador for the Muscular Dystrophy Association.  Full name: Matthew Joseph Thaddeus Stepanek.  Born, 1990. Died, 2004.

Collection material in English.

Forms part of: Miscellaneous Manuscripts collection.