Face to Face: An Autobiography

Overview

Blind since the age of four, Ved Mehta led a lonely and turbulent childhoodin India until he was accepted to the Arkansas School for the Blind, to whichhe flew alone at fifteen. America and the school changed his life, leadingto degrees at Oxford and Harvard Universities and a fruitful writing career.Face to Face (1957), Mehta’s first book, is the author’s autobiographytouching upon childhood, blindness and remaking himself. It remains oneof his most beloved works.