JERROLD LADD is a 24-year-old writer, who has just published an autobiography, "Out of the Madness." (Warner Books) In his book, he writes about growing up in the Dallas housing projects, with his mother who was a heroin addict. He describes how he struggled to educate himself and eventually became a writer. His book started out as an article, written when he was 20, and published in "Dallas Life." This article won him the prestigious "Sunday Magazine Editors Association National Essay of the Year Award." LADD currently writes for the "Dallas Morning News," and attends college.
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