Jon Franklin, Baltimore Sun, a câştigat primul Pulitzer pentru feature writing acordat vreodată (în 1979) pentru această poveste despre lupta unei femei şi a medicului ei cu o tumoare pe creier. Textul surprinde ultimul act al războiului, confruntarea finală dintre neurochirurg şi monstru.
Mrs. Kelly’s Monster
by Jon Franklin
In the cold hours of a winter morning Dr. Thomas Barbee Ducker, chief brain surgeon at the University of Maryland Hospital, rises before dawn. His wife serves him waffles but no coffee. Coffee makes his hands shake.In downtown Baltimore, on the 12th floor of University Hospital, Edna Kelly’s husband tells her goodbye. For 57 years Mrs. Kelly shared her skull with the monster: No more. Today she is frightened but determined.
