The Man Who Loved Clowns is a 1992 novel by June Rae Wood about coping with mental disability in the family.The Man Who Loved Clowns at Fantastic Fiction The story is based on Wood's personal experience of life with her brother Richard who himself had Down syndrome.June Rae Wood author page at Goodreads Wood also wrote a sequel, entitled Turtle on a Fence Post, set one year later.Turtle on a Fence Post at Fantastic Fiction
Awards 1995 Mark Twain Award in Missouri 1995 William Allen White Award in Kansas
See also A Corner of the Universe by Ann M. Martin, a novel with a similar theme
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External links Selected excerpts from the book