Christy Brown was born in 1932 to a poor Dublin family. He was severally disabled but was lucky enough to be assisted by his own mother, his social worker and Dr. Robert Collis who had set up an association to help victims of cerebral palsy. Christy was a highly intelligent man and with the help of his brothers and Dr. Collis wrote a short autobiography. He was befriended by an American woman named Betty Moore who brought him to America and enable him to develop his writing skills and his independence. They fell in love and palnned to marry after she divorced. Christy had had a major success with 'Down All the Days' and became moderately wealthy. When Betty was preapring to leave her American family to relocate to Ireland, Christy met a younger and more beautiful woman, Mary Carr. He ditched Betty and married Mary. Herefused to return Betty's letters and wrote a novel about their relationship saying that nothing really happened between them. Christy's marriage was not successful. He became an alcoholic and died prematurly. He wanted to be knwon as an author not a disabled author.