Mozart and the Whale

An Asperger's Love Story

author: ... and Johnny Dodd

• Supposedly Jerry and Mary Newport, but their "voice" is absent

362.19685 Newport, Cedar Mill Library, 2007

Written as a movie tie-in. Some of the factoids are incorrect.

• p41 Elk Horn Wisconsin March 1955, Aden Meinel heads observatory for University of Chicago
• p43 6 siblings, most tormented Mary, Carolyn (oldest) did not
  • Carolyn... Barbara ... Elaine ... Wally ... Mary ... David ??
• Moved to Scottsdale when Mary was two

• p48 Carolyn 8th grade fell asleep in class, coma not true, says Carolyn, this was actually Mary

• p50 strict Lutherans, Calvalry??? Calvary Lutheran church every Sunday

• p64 April 1964? Mary 4th grade
• p75 1969? 9th grade, drugs, hitchhikes west
• p77 Elaine (sister) in Berkeley
• p90 March 1970, just before 15th birthday, Children of God with Barbara ("Naomi") between Mingus and Ranger Texas
  • after living with Carolyn and Keith H.
• p118 Cabin in Oregon, second son Peter in Vida OR
• p148 Nov 1993 AGUA meeting

2005 Movie

• 'based on"
• Moved to Spokane, Donald and Isabel
• No backstory, family