Author
36 results in Author.
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Maud Rowell
Blind journalist; author of Blind Spot.
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Mona Minkara
Blind bioengineer and professor, and creator of the Holman Prize-winning web series Planes, Trains, and Canes.
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Naomi Cohn
Blind poet and teaching artist who lost much of her vision to retinal neovascularization; author of the award-winning memoir The Braille Encyclopedia: Brief Essays on Altered Sight.
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Ravindra Jain
Blind Padma Shri composer and lyricist who scored TV's Ramayan (1944-2015).
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Red Szell
Blind crime novelist and broadcaster; first blind climber of the Old Man of Hoy.
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Reuben Kigame
Reuben Kigame is a blind Kenyan gospel musician, author, theologian, and broadcaster who has recorded roughly 30 albums and pioneered disability-focused media and ministry.
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Robert Kingett
Blind journalist and author of Off the Grid: Living Blind Without the Internet.
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Ryan Knighton
Canadian blind author and screenwriter who lost his sight to retinitis pigmentosa; wrote the memoirs Cockeyed and C'mon Papa.
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Selina Mills
Blind journalist; author of Life Unseen: A Story of Blindness.
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Stephen Kuusisto
Blind American poet and memoirist, author of Planet of the Blind, who teaches disability studies at Syracuse University.
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Hoby Wedler
Blind chemist and entrepreneur who created the Tasting in the Dark program and founded Accessible Science.
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Erik Weihenmayer
The first blind person to summit Mount Everest, a best-selling author, and co-founder of the No Barriers nonprofit.