Reveals how the author discovered at the age of thirty-four that he had been partially deaf since childhood and shares how he compensated through his amazing ability to translate the melody of vowels.
Authors with Disabilities
Authors with Disabilities Collection includes multiple topics and genres written by authors who identify as having a disability. Some titles address disability directly, while other do not.
See also: Disability Perspectives Collection
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Auteur:Shea, GeraldSommaire: - Auteur:Solomon, RiversSommaire:
Vern, a hunted woman alone in the woods, gives birth to twins and raises them away from the influence of the outside world. But something is wrong, not with them, but with her own body. It's itching, it's stronger, it's not normal. To...
- Auteur:Armentrout, Jennifer L.Sommaire:
Enter a world of gargoyle protectors, rising demons and one girl with an explosive secret. Eighteen-year-old Trinity Marrow may be going blind, but she can see and communicate with ghosts and spirits. Her unique gift is part of a secret...
- Auteur:LaSpina, NadinaSommaire:
This is Nadina LaSpina's story-from her early years in her native Sicily, where she contracts polio as a baby, a fact that makes her the object of well-meaning pity and the target of messages of hopelessness, to her adolescence and...
- Auteur:Plath, SylviaSommaire:
When Esther Greenwood wins an internship at a New York fashion magazine in 1953, she is elated, believing she will finally realise her dream to become a writer. But in between the cocktail parties and piles of manuscripts, Esther's life...
- Auteur:Murphy, Robert F.Sommaire:
The Body Silent is a personal narrative written by Robert Murphy, a professor at Columbia University. This piece is a narrative of personal struggle through a spinal condition, published in 1987 by Henry Holt and Company, Inc. He uses...
- Auteur:Leduc, AmandaSommaire:
A young family wakes to a ruined world - their city has been devastated by meteors, and Heather, Brendan, and their newborn twins are among the few survivors. A nearby mountain - the site of a tragedy that underlies Heather’s life -...
- Auteur:Saks, Elyn R.Sommaire:
Professor of psychiatry Elyn R. Saks writes about her struggle with schizophrenia in this unflinching account of her mental illness. Saks draws readers into a nightmare world of medications, a misguided health care system, and social...
- Auteur:Leland, AndrewSommaire:
A witty, winning, and revelatory personal narrative of the author's transition from sightedness to blindness and his quest to learn all he can about blindness as a distinct and rich culture all its own. We meet Andrew Leland as he's...
- Auteur:Curran, Abbey, Kaye, ElizabethSommaire:
Abbey Curran was born with cerebral palsy, but she resolved to never let it limit her. And after realizing her own dreams, she began helping other disabled girls do the same. Abbey tells a story of overcoming the odds and finding the...
- Auteur:Goode, BarbSommaire:
The inspiring story of one of Canada's most remarkable and humble citizens who, in her mission of supporting equality and giving voice to those who had no voice, travelled much of the globe and met some of the greatest leaders of our...
- Auteur:O'Rourke, MeghanSommaire:
A landmark exploration of one of the most consequential and mysterious issues of our time: the rise of chronic illness and autoimmune diseases A silent epidemic of chronic illnesses afflicts tens of millions of Americans: these are...
- Auteur:Hoang, HelenSommaire:
A heartwarming and refreshing debut novel that proves one thing: there's not enough data in the world to predict what will make your heart tick. Stella Lane thinks math is the only thing that unites the universe. She comes up with...
- Auteur:Barnes, MikeSommaire:
A memoir that chronicles unflinchingly the destructiveness of bipolar disorder - an illness that infiltrates thinking, feeling and acting in ways that change the very fabric of identity, of the life story one is telling oneself; however...
- Auteur:Adam, DavidSommaire:
David has suffered from OCD for twenty years, and The Man Who Couldn't Stop is his unflinchingly honest attempt to understand the condition and his experiences. What might lead an Ethiopian schoolgirl to eat a wall of her house, piece...
- Auteur:Antrobus, RaymondSommaire:
The Perseverance is the remarkable debut book by British-Jamaican poet Raymond Antrobus. Ranging across history and continents, these poems operate in the spaces in between, their haunting lyrics creating new, hybrid territories. The...
- Auteur:Mooney, JonathanSommaire:
"What makes this journey so inspiring is Mooney's transcendent humor; the self he has become does not turn away from old pain but can laugh at it, make fun of it, make it into something beautiful."-Los Angeles Times. This program is...
- Auteur:White, Andrew JosephSommaire:
New York Times bestselling author Andrew Joseph White returns with the transgressive gothic horror of our time! A blood-soaked and nauseating triumph that cuts like a scalpel and reads like your darkest nightmare. Mors vincit omnia....
- Auteur:Michalko, RodSommaire:
When Rod Michalko's sight finally became so limited that he no longer felt safe on busy city streets or traveling alone, he began a search for a guide. The Two-in-One is his account of how his search ended with Smokie, a guide dog, and...
- Auteur:Bennett, RoxannaSommaire:
In "unmeaningable", her previous Trillium Poetry Awards winning book with Gordon Hill Press, Roxanna Bennett renovated the North American disability poetics canon via her queer fusion of invisible and visible disability identities. "The...
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