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New Memoir Documents Childhood Polio

Author Susan Richards Shreve talks about her memoir, Warm Springs: Traces of a Childhood at FDR's Polio Haven. Sent to Warm Springs as a child, Shreve recounts her stay at the Georgia resort redesigned by Franklin Delano Roosevelt for the care of polio patients.

Susan Richards Shreve, novelist, Warm Springs: Traces of a Childhood at FDR's Polio Haven

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