Miles Levin, a Jew­ish teenag­er from sub­ur­ban Detroit, was diag­nosed with a soft tis­sue can­cer at age 16 in June 2005. He chron­ciled his can­cer jour­ney on a blog which was read by tens of thou­sands of read­ers and fea­tured on Ander­son Coop­er’s AC360 pro­gram on CNN. Miles was award­ed the Lead­er­ship in Courage Award by the Sar­co­ma Foun­da­tion of Amer­i­ca. He passed away in August, 2007. His father, Jon Levin, has excerpt­ed the blog in book form and pro­vides com­men­tary. Jon serves as co-author and pub­li­cist for the book.