I just read an announcement made in the Austin Business Journal about University of Texas Professor David Oshinsky's Pulitzer Prize award for his book, Polio: An American Story.

Digging around a bit, I found this interesting PBS interview with him held last year.  Excerpt:

SUSAN DENTZER: The history of the Salk vaccine and America's epic battle against polio is told in a new book "Polio, an American Story. The typical polio victim was a child under 15, but perhaps the most famous one was Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

DAVID OSHINSKY: Franklin Roosevelt got polio in 1921 at the age of 39. He was a very atypical victim. Yet in one sense, he wasn't. He had spent that summer in Washington under great stress. He had gone to a Boy Scout camp surrounded by children. He had gone to his summer home in Campobello Island, engaged in frenetic activity, actually falling off his yacht into the Bay of Fundy. All of this made it more likely for him to get polio.

More important, he spent his life as an advocate of the fight against polio. He's the founder of the Warm Springs Foundation, where the little White House was, where people went to be rehabilitated from polio. He was the founder of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, known to Americans as the March of Dimes. And when he died in 1945, his portrait was put on the dime. [I never knew of this connection. - LS]

Here is Prof. Oshinsky's personal webpage: