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Remembering Mr. Shawn's New Yorker: the invisible art of editing
Par Ved Mehta. 1998
Born in India and blind since early childhood, writer Ved Mehta portrays his relationship with William Shawn, editor-in-chief of the…
New Yorker. He begins with their first meeting in 1959, when Mehta was anxious about earning a livelihood. Sequel to Up at Oxford (BR 9455) in his autobiographical series. 1998Too late to die young: nearly true tales from a life
Par Harriet McBryde Johnson. 2005
A lawyer specializing in disability issues protests Jerry Lewis's telethon and media heroes like Christopher Reeve. Born with a neuromuscular…
disease, the wheelchair-user relates anecdotes from her life of advocacy including involvement in Charleston, South Carolina, politics. Some strong language. 2005The red letters: my father's enchanted period (Nation Bks.)
Par Ved Mehta. 2004
Concluding volume in Continents of Exile series--the blind author's memoirs. Mehta recounts finding forty-year-old love letters that reveal his father's…
passionate love affair in Simla, India, in the 1930s. This discovery changes the author's perceptions of his father and mother, and even of himself. 2004Living with polio: the epidemic and its survivors
Par Daniel J. Wilson. 2005
History professor and polio survivor relates accounts of polio patients during the mid-twentieth-century epidemics. Chronicles their experiences from diagnosis to…
rehabilitation and recovery--including, in some cases, dealing with post-polio syndrome. Highlights the emotional and physical struggles of living with a disability. 2005Fly like a bumblebee: a blind magician shares his most powerful secrets
Par R. W. Klamm. 2004
Magician describes living with congenital optic atrophy disorder. He reveals with wit and humor how his profession helped to build…
his self-confidence. He explains easy tricks that demonstrate the concept "the hand is quicker than the eye." 2004Scattered shadows: a memoir of blindness and vision
Par John Howard Griffin, Robert Bonazzi. 2004
The author of Black like me (DB 61703) recounts losing his sight in 1947 from a war injury and unexpectedly…
recovering it ten years later. Describes his religious conversion to Catholicism during his blindness and individual and institutional reactions to his physical impairment. Some strong language. 2004Reflections from a different journey: what adults with disabilities wish all parents knew
Par Stanley Klein, John Kemp. 2004
Forty informative essays by successful adult role models who have "lived the disability experience." Individuals with Down syndrome, cerebral palsy,…
vision and hearing loss, autism, spina bifida, muscular dystrophy, learning disabilities, and other health conditions share their thoughts on acceptance, parenting, sexuality, and education. 2004The world I live in (New York Review Books classics)
Par Helen Keller. 2003
New edition of a short collection of personal essays Helen Keller wrote in 1908 when she was twenty-eight. Follows The…
Story of My Life (DB 55883). This reflective work is separated into three categories: the senses, especially touch; imagination, thinking, and language; and dream analysis. Introduction by Roger Shattuck. 2003Dark harbor: building house and home on an enchanted island (Nation Bks.)
Par Ved Mehta. 2003
In this continuation of his Continents of Exile memoir series, Mehta, a blind writer, recounts his undertaking to build a…
house on a small Maine island in 1984 and the importance of this home in his marriage and family life. 2003Helen and teacher: the story of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan Macy
Par Joseph P Lash. 1980
Dual biography reveals the depth and intensity in the mutually dependent relationship between deaf-blind Helen Keller and her teacher, Anne…
Sullivan. Chronicles both women's childhoods and adult years until Keller's death in 1968. 1980Running around in family circles with friends in pursuit
Par Georgia Griffith. 2003
Author, born blind, recalls her life from childhood in the 1930s through the 1990s. Griffith discusses growing up in a…
sighted family, attending a school for the blind, obtaining a degree in music education, becoming a braille music proofreader for the National Library Service, and organizing and managing computer discussion groups for CompuServe. 2003Mexico by touch: true life experiences of a blind American deejay
Par Larry P Johnson. 2003
Larry Johnson relates his personal account of moving to Mexico City in 1957. Details how Johnson spent the next seventeen…
years advancing his bilingual broadcasting career in radio and TV, becoming the first blind newscaster on Mexican television. 2003Helen Keller: discover the life of an American legend
Par Don McLeese. 2003
Summit
2002
Seven blind persons recall how they have reached the summit as they scaled "personal mountains." "To Climb Every Mountain" describes…
Erik Weihenmayer's successful ascent of Mt. Everest. Other chapters recount a blind student's camp counselor job and a teenager's conquest of the fear of losing her physical freedom on becoming blind. 2002Nine accounts by blind people about work and everyday routines. Includes editor Marc Maurer's recollections of campus life at the…
University of Notre Dame, a young man's reflections on choosing a career in music, and a home owner's musings on his neighbors' surprise that he works around the house. 2002Helen Keller: a level two reader (Wonder Bks.wonder Books Nonfiction)
Par Cynthia Fitterer Klingel. 2002
A year of Sundays: taking the plunge (and our cat) to explore Europe
Par Edward D. Webster. 2004
Recounts author's year-long 1997 European trip with his visually impaired, menopausal wife, Marguerite, and sixteen-year-old cat, Felicia. Describes putting careers…
on hold to realize their dream and embarking "on a quest for adventure," exploring eateries, tourist destinations, and romantic locales in France, Greece, Holland, Spain, Germany, Italy, and Austria. 2004Partners in independence: a success story of dogs and the disabled
Par Toni Eames, Edwin Eames. 2004
Accounts of disabled people whose lives have been enhanced by specially trained guide, hearing, and service dogs. Documents heroism as…
well as everyday deeds. The authors, who are visually impaired, also describe their own experiences with canine partners and chronicle the 1990s assistance dog movement. Revision of 1997 edition. 2004Safari
2001
Nine personal accounts, edited by the president of the National Federation of the Blind, in which blind people explain the…
need to be perceived as ordinary human beings. Includes accounts by a scoutmaster who hikes the Grand Canyon and a college student who barters his ironing ability for rides. 2001No finish line: my life as I see it
Par Marla Runyan. 2001
Memoirs of the first legally blind athlete to compete in the Olympic Games. Discovering that attitude can be more disabling…
than vision loss, Marla describes how she overcame difficulties at school by playing the violin and becoming a competitive runner. 2001