The Unlikely Celebrity
Bill Sackter’s Triumph over Disability
By Thomas Walz, 1998
Tom Walz tells the story of Bill Sackter, a man who spent half a century in a Minnesota mental institution and emerged to blossom into a most unlikely celebrity.
Bill became an important part of the University of Iowa and was put in charge of a small coffee shop. Cheerful man of good will, Bill began to inspire affectionate legends, and his life as a celebrity began in earnest.
Bill was named Iowa’s Handicapped Person of the Year in 1977.