A MINORITY OF MANY

Thank you for John Balzar’s understanding and insightful review of John Hockenberry’s “Moving Violations” on the cover of today’s Book Review section. But as a long-time wheelchair user myself, I was somewhat put off by the review’s title, “A Minority of One.” Fact is, the U.S. government estimates some 49 million Americans have a disability--making us the single largest minority group in the country!

Ironically, Balzar astutely points out: “Hockenberry tells an intimate, personal story about a minority group for which each of us remains fully eligible.”

BEN MATTLIN, LOS ANGELES