Author and NPR book commentator Alan Cheuse is in a coma after a serious car accident in California. Cheuse was driving from the Squaw Valley Writers Workshop in Nevada City to Santa Cruz when he was seriously injured on Highway 17.
Cheuse's family has set up a page on Caring Bridge where they can share updates about his condition and people can leave notes (but they note that donations made there will not go to them).
After the accident, which occurred last Tuesday, Cheuse was taken to the hospital with broken ribs and broken vertebrae in his neck.