Biographies of People with Disabilities

The Fight For Disability Justice: 6 Powerful Memoirs

Next month, in July, we celebrate Disability Pride Month — on July 26, 1990, the Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law, and the celebration has since spread beyond the US. Of course, it’s never too early to recognize the everyday people who continue to fight for equality, dignity,…

Megan BeauregardJune 7, 2024

Nonfiction Recommended

Where Grief Meets Grace on the Road to Understanding

Kathleen Somers' Barely Visible: Mothering a Son Through His Misunderstood Autism is a deeply moving memoir that chronicles one mother’s emotional journey through grief, motherhood and the challenges of raising a neurodivergent child. With unflinching honesty, Somers invites readers into the most intimate corners of her life, offering a powerful story of…

Kelsey HallApril 21, 2025

Author Spotlight

Author and Poet Emphasizes Humor and Tenacity in Eye-Opening Disability Memoir

“Gravity,” Mary Keating writes. “One: a fundamental interaction keeping every body down to earth and drawn to each other, counterbalancing the inclination to float away. Two: the prison guard of my paralysis — escaped by full submersion in water, meditation, poetry, or dreams. Also overcome by a shift in perception.”…

BookTribOctober 21, 2024

Nonfiction Recommended

Memoir Recounts Sister’s Rescue Mission and the Ongoing Fight For Disability Justice

“Forced care is happening to people with disabilities around the world. Most people don’t escape. And the world shrugs.” Should everyone have the right to choose where they live? The answer seems obvious — of course, choosing where you live is a basic human right. But for Teresa Heartchild, an…

Megan BeauregardApril 16, 2024

Nonfiction Recommended

Disability Memoir Explores Life, Love and Human Experience Through Poetry

“I am not just one voice alone. I am one voice among a billion.” It’s been said before that most poetry is autobiographical. Poetry is known to draw from a place of truth — whether emotional truth, universal observation, or personal anecdote. But Recalibrating Gravity by Mary Keating is a…

Megan BeauregardSeptember 5, 2024

Nonfiction Recommended

Blind, Deaf Athlete’s Inspiring Story of Hope and Excellence in Sports and Life

As Kevin Frost describes his many incredible athletic accomplishments in his memoir Deaf Blind Champion, he notes what his speed skating mentor, Coach Mike, did to make some of these feats even possible. “He never trained me as a person with disabilities,” writes Frost. “He trained me as a high-performance…

Jim AlkonApril 19, 2024

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The Devastating Loss of a Child Provides One Mother With a Lifetime of Wisdom

“To die will be an awfully big adventure” – James M. Berrie, Peter Pan Searching for Spenser: A Mother's Journey Through Grief (Anamcara Press) by Margaret Kramar opens by telling readers what they can expect to find between its covers; there is no suspenseful moment to the climax, no unforeseen plot…

Kelsey HallOctober 6, 2021

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Jan Paez, Mental Health Advocate and Bipolar Author, Provides Hope in Healing Memoir

Jan Paez's debut, Tales of a Mad Hatter, is an important book on a subject near and dear to the author’s heart. It is a nonfiction offering in which the author himself struggles with childhood and adolescence that are punctuated by all kinds of abuse, trauma, darkness and growth through cold…

Judy MorenoDecember 13, 2021

Biographies of People with Disabilities

Where Grief Meets Grace on the Road to Understanding

Author and Poet Emphasizes Humor and Tenacity in Eye-Opening Disability Memoir

Disability Memoir Explores Life, Love and Human Experience Through Poetry

Blind, Deaf Athlete’s Inspiring Story of Hope and Excellence in Sports and Life

The Devastating Loss of a Child Provides One Mother With a Lifetime of Wisdom

Jan Paez, Mental Health Advocate and Bipolar Author, Provides Hope in Healing Memoir

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