Saks’ Memoir Receives Lasting Tribute

USC Law professor Elyn Saks

Pelham Woods, a women’s mental health hospital in Surrey, England, is naming a hospital ward after USC Gould School of Law professor Elyn Saks...

Although Saks has enjoyed a lifetime of academic success — valedictorian at Vanderbilt University, a Marshall scholar at Oxford, at the top of her class at Yale Law School and now a respected legal scholar at USC Law - she also has battled schizophrenia since she was in college.

Saks said she wrote memoir to be free of the secret she had kept for so long and to implode myths about mental illness.  “I wanted to write this book to give hope to people who suffer from schizophrenia and understanding to people who don’t,” she said.

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