Allen Rucker
Author
The Best Seat in the House: How I Woke Up One Tuesday
and Was Paralyzed for Life
Allen Rucker writes both candidly and with humor about his experience and viewpoint on being disabled in America. At age 51, Allen suddenly became paralyzed from the waist down due to the sudden onset of transverse myelitis, a rare neurological disorder. |
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Allen, born in Wichita Falls, Texas, and raised in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, has a master's in communication from Stanford University, a master's in American culture from the University of Michigan, and a bachelor's in English from Washington University, St. Louis.
He is the author or co-author of nine books, including three books on “The Sopranos,” and is a TV writer-producer who has won numerous awards for his work. He also teaches at the University of Southern California School of Cinema-TV.
Allen and his wife, Ann-Marie, live in Los Angeles and are the parents of two sons. |
