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A Father Reflects on His Daughter's Dwarfism
-- and What It Means to Be Different

Essays on dwarfism

Little People, Big World
Will TLC's new reality show change our perception of dwarfs?
By Dan Kennedy
Slate
March 24, 2006

The Bone Machine
Limb-lengthening surgery would make my daughter tall. But I'd rather she accept her dwarfism as an important part of who she is.
By Dan Kennedy
The Boston Phoenix
November 28, 2003
(An excerpt from Little People, with an accompanying Q&A by Liz Matson.)

Little Chance
The Station Agent and its star, Peter Dinklage, cast dwarfism in a new, well-rounded light
By Dan Kennedy
The Boston Phoenix
October 17, 2003

A Little Reality
The father of a girl with dwarfism peers into her future at the annual gathering of Little People of America
By Dan Kennedy
The Boston Phoenix
July 18, 2002

An Unexpected Connection
The secret life of "Hank the Drunken Dwarf"
By Dan Kennedy
Unitarian Universalist World
March/April 2002

A Most Congenial Activist
Aggressive enough to agitate for disability rights, self-deprecating enough to have played a dwarf in an opera, Ruth Ricker has plans for Little People of America
By Dan Kennedy
Northeastern University Magazine
November 1994