My Left Foot is the 1954 autobiography of Christy Brown, an Irish author, painter and poet, born in Crumlin, Dublin. One of thirteen surviving children, he suffered from cerebral palsy and was considered mentally disabled except by his mother until he famously snatched a piece of yellow chalk from his sister with his left foot in order to make "a wild sort of scribble with it on the slate". My Left Foot was made into a film starring Daniel Day-Lewis as Brown.
