He came inside, flushed and feverish. His mother gasped. “She knew right away that I had polio,” recalled Paul Alexander. “I ...

The polio survivor known as "the man in the iron lung" has died at the age of 78. Paul Alexander contracted polio in 1952 when he was six, leaving him paralysed from the neck down. The disease ...

Paul Alexander is the author of numerous books, among them Boulevard of Broken Dreams: The Life, Times, and Legend of James Dean. His new portrait of Dean, Being James Dean, has just been released ...