News at Eleven (Back Page): As a child, Philip Schultz didn't understand

why he couldn't learn. He was held back twice and both his classmates and teachers ignored him. When he revealed that he wanted to be a writer, he was ridiculed.

Schultz went on to become a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. But it wasn't until his young son was diagnosed with dyslexia that Schultz, then 58, had a name for the disorder that had plagued him his entire life.

from NPR: Prize-Winning Poet: Discovering 'My Dyslexia' At 58
then NPR: Excerpt: My Dyslexia

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