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Jason Schmidt
Memoir & Personal Growth
Author of a memoir recounting growing up with an HIV‑positive father amid secrecy, drugs, and crime, confronting moral choices and survival.
Biography
Jason David Schmidt (born January 29, 1973) is an American former Major League Baseball pitcher. In his career he played for the Atlanta Braves (1995–96), Pittsburgh Pirates (1996–2001), San Francisco Giants (2001–06) and Los Angeles Dodgers (2007–2009). He was drafted by the Atlanta Braves in the eighth round, 206th overall, of the 1991 draft.
Schmidt is also the author of a memoir that recounts his childhood living with his father, Mark, after Mark was diagnosed with HIV. The book describes a home shaped by secrecy about drugs, crime, and sex, and the long-standing rule never to tell outsiders. It frames those experiences with stark, often darkly comic observations while examining how to find a moral center in a difficult world.
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Books by Jason Schmidt
A list of things that didn't kill me
A List of Things That Didn't Kill Me is a memoir in which Jason Schmidt describes growing up with his father Mark after an HIV diagnosis, a household of secrets about drugs, crime, and sex. The book combines disturbing incidents with unexpected wit as it explores how he sought a moral center.