Abstract
Superior intelligence, creative genius, extraordinary personality, and/or social prominence have been associated with asthma often enough to raise the question of a nonrandom concurrence. With no intent to prove any developmental correlation, this section of the journal of Asthma presents such “case reports” (more biographical than biological) for two main reasons: (A) to document the experience of asthma in the life of outstanding persons and (B) to make everyone better acquainted—using asthma as an “excuse”—with the work and times of some unique human beings. Future articles will review the lives of Charles Darwin, Theodore Roosevelt, Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, Elizabeth Bishop, and others.
The Literary Genius and the Many Maladies of Marcel Proust
Selections and Notes