Joni Eareckson Tada
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About
Evangelical writer and radio personality known for her Christian-themed books on the subject of people with disabilities. Her titles include Choices...Changes, A Step Further, and When God Weeps.
Before Fame
At the age of seventeen, she suffered a diving accident that left her a quadriplegic. She later published a memoir detailing her physical and emotional rehabilitation in the years following the life-changing incident.
Trivia
She established Joni and Friends, a Christian foundation catering to the spiritual needs of disabled people.
Family Life
She and her husband Ken married in the early 1980s and settled in Calabasas, California.
Associated With
Like Superman actor Christopher Reeve, she became disabled as the result of a sporting accident.
