Paul Power’s play, Crippled, has garnered awards and glowing reviews for his portrayal of his experiences as a person living with a disability. Now in a published form, his story of challenge, loss, and redemption presents universal...
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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Author:Power, PaulSummary: - Author:Matheson, NeilSummary:
Neil Matheson is a first-time writer from western Canada, currently residing in Surrey, British Columbia. Born with a physical disability called Cerebral Palsy, Neil experienced life on a pair of crutches, walked through life on a pair...
- Author:Siebert, Robert, DiMarco, NyleSummary:
Nyle DiMarco shares stories, both heartbreaking and humorous, of what it means to navigate a world built for hearing people. Through his stories and those of his Deaf family, he opens many windows into the Deaf experience.
- Author:Withers, A. J.Summary:
An accessible introduction to disability studies, Disability Politics and Theory provides a concise survey of disability history, exploring the concept of disability as it has been conceived from the late 19th century to the present....
- Author:Mattlin, BenSummary:
An eye-opening portrait of the diverse disability community as it is today and how attitudes, activism, and representation have evolved since the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
- Author:Wong, AliceSummary:
One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, others less apparent-but all are underrepresented in media and popular culture. Now, just in time for the thirtieth anniversary of the...
- Author:Leduc, AmandaSummary:
Fairy tales shape how we see the world, so what happens when you identify more with the Beast than Beauty? If every disabled character is mocked and mistreated, how does the Beast ever imagine a happily-ever-after? Amanda Leduc looks at...
- Author:Frazee, CatherineSummary:
Dr. Catherine Frazee wants her readers to know that there is far more to disability than most people think or assume. There is much not to like about disability, such as the ways it diminishes status and opportunity, and the ways it...
- Author:Little, JeanSummary:
In this sequel to Rescue Pup, Shakespeare, the unusual Seeing Eye dog who understands humans, must win over his new master, a desperately unhappy young man who was recently blinded in an accident.
- Author:Yarros, RebeccaSummary:
A #1 New York Times bestseller Optioned for TV by Amazon Studios Amazon Best Books of the Year, #4 Apple Best Books of the Year 2023 Barnes & Noble Best Fantasy Book of 2023 NPR "Books We Love" 2023 Audible Best Books of 2023 Hudson...
- Author:Little, JeanSummary:
Nine-year-old Anna has always been the clumsy one in the family - somehow she can never do anything right. She bumps into tables, and she can't read the chalkboard at school. Her perfect brothers and sisters call her 'Awkward Anna.'...
- Author:Lapointe, PaulSummary:
For almost fifty years Paul LaPointe wondered what was wrong with him while he struggled with the consequences of undiagnosed bi-polar disorder. He lost relationships, lived a life of extremes and cycled in and out of jail as a result...
- Author:McCreary, MichaelSummary:
Like many others on the autism spectrum, 20-something stand-up comic Michael McCreary has been told by more than a few well-meaning folks that he doesn't "look" autistic. But, as he's quick to point out in this memoir, autism "looks"...
- Author:Lawson, JennySummary:
In Furiously Happy, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jenny Lawson explores her lifelong battle with mental illness. A hysterical, ridiculous book about crippling depression and anxiety? That sounds like a terrible idea. But terrible...
- Author:Hibbert, TaliaSummary:
Talia Hibbert, one of contemporary romance's brightest new stars, delivers a witty, hilarious romantic comedy about a woman who's tired of being "boring" and recruits her mysterious, sexy neighbor to help her get a life-perfect for fans...
- Author:Girma, HabenSummary:
This book tells the incredible life story of Haben Girma, the first deafblind graduate of Harvard Law School, and her amazing journey from isolation to the world stage.
- Author:Paperny, Anna MehlerSummary:
Award-winning journalist Anna Mehler Paperny's stunning memoir chronicles with courageous honesty and uncommon eloquence her experience of depression and her quest to explore what we know and don't know about this disease that afflicts...
- Author:Hollier, ScottSummary:
- Author:Trace, KaleighSummary:
This is a sex book. It's a book about having sex by yourself, with one person, or with twenty people if everyone is down. It's about saying words like cunt, fuck, and come. But it's also about the things we don't talk about the mystery...
- Author:Couture, ChristaSummary:
A powerful testament to resilience by performing and recording artist Christa Couture. Christa Couture has come to know every corner of grief--its shifting blurry edges, its traps, its pulse of love at the centre and the bittersweet...
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