Best Biographies of People with Physical Disabilities

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Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body
Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body 4.41 avg rating — 9,499 ratings
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Spineless
Spineless 4.93 avg rating — 14 ratings
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death 3.98 avg rating — 76,136 ratings
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My Left Foot
My Left Foot 4.05 avg rating — 8,747 ratings
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Gianna: Aborted...and Lived to Tell About It (Living Books)
Gianna: Aborted...and Lived to Tell About It (Living Books) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 756 ratings
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Goalkeeper: Memoir of Poet Peter Street
Goalkeeper: Memoir of Poet Peter Street 4.58 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Able-Bodied Like Me: Navigating & balancing cultures from the seat of my pants
Able-Bodied Like Me: Navigating & balancing cultures from the seat of my pants 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The View From Down Here: Life as a Young Disabled Woman
The View From Down Here: Life as a Young Disabled Woman 4.30 avg rating — 295 ratings
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A Limp of Faith: Memoir of a Disabled Disciple
A Limp of Faith: Memoir of a Disabled Disciple 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Heart of a Patriot: How I Found the Courage to Survive Vietnam, Walter Reed and Karl Rove
Heart of a Patriot: How I Found the Courage to Survive Vietnam, Walter Reed and Karl Rove 3.91 avg rating — 81 ratings
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It's Not Yet Dark
It's Not Yet Dark 4.16 avg rating — 2,808 ratings
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Messenger: The Legacy of Mattie J.T. Stepanek and Heartsongs
Messenger: The Legacy of Mattie J.T. Stepanek and Heartsongs 4.46 avg rating — 650 ratings
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A Certain Loneliness: A Memoir
A Certain Loneliness: A Memoir 4.44 avg rating — 91 ratings
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Moving Violations: War Zones, Wheelchairs, and Declarations of Independence
Moving Violations: War Zones, Wheelchairs, and Declarations of Independence 4.08 avg rating — 530 ratings
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Emma V.I.P.
Emma V.I.P. 4.05 avg rating — 91 ratings
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The Story of My Life
The Story of My Life 4.08 avg rating — 150,148 ratings
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Messenger: The Amazing Story of Mattie J.T. Stepanek and Heartsongs
Messenger: The Amazing Story of Mattie J.T. Stepanek and Heartsongs 4.46 avg rating — 650 ratings
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Summers of Fire: A Memoir of Adventure, Love and Courage
Summers of Fire: A Memoir of Adventure, Love and Courage 4.19 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Hurricane Street
Hurricane Street
by: Ron Kovic
3.98 avg rating — 42 ratings
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The God Squad
The God Squad 3.85 avg rating — 337 ratings
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Unsinkable: From Russian Orphan to Paralympic Swimming World Champion
Unsinkable: From Russian Orphan to Paralympic Swimming World Champion 3.97 avg rating — 230 ratings
22.
Stephen Hawking: His Life and Work
Stephen Hawking: His Life and Work 3.79 avg rating — 197 ratings
22.
Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation
Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation 4.55 avg rating — 677 ratings
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My Brief History
My Brief History 3.63 avg rating — 11,114 ratings
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Don't Suck, Don't Die: Giving Up Vic Chesnutt
Don't Suck, Don't Die: Giving Up Vic Chesnutt really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 815 ratings
26.
Ray Charles: Voice of Soul
Ray Charles: Voice of Soul 4.20 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law
Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law 4.19 avg rating — 5,208 ratings
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Hello Darkness, My Old Friend: How Daring Dreams and Unyielding Friendship Turned One Man's Blindness into an Extraordinary Vision for Life
Hello Darkness, My Old Friend: How Daring Dreams and Unyielding Friendship Turned One Man's Blindness into an Extraordinary Vision for Life really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 805 ratings
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The Songs of Blind Folk: African American Musicians and the Cultures of Blindness
The Songs of Blind Folk: African American Musicians and the Cultures of Blindness 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Unexampled Courage: The Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard and the Awakening of President Harry S. Truman and Judge J. Waties Waring
Unexampled Courage: The Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard and the Awakening of President Harry S. Truman and Judge J. Waties Waring 4.42 avg rating — 648 ratings
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Blind Tom: The Post-Civil War Enslavement of a Black Musical Genius
Blind Tom: The Post-Civil War Enslavement of a Black Musical Genius 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
32.
No Barriers: A Blind Man's Journey to Kayak the Grand Canyon
No Barriers: A Blind Man's Journey to Kayak the Grand Canyon 4.10 avg rating — 851 ratings
33.
Blind but Now I See: The Biography of Music Legend Doc Watson
Blind but Now I See: The Biography of Music Legend Doc Watson 3.76 avg rating — 199 ratings
34.
Hand Me My Travelin' Shoes: In Search of Blind Willie McTell
Hand Me My Travelin' Shoes: In Search of Blind Willie McTell 3.95 avg rating — 107 ratings
35.
Revelation Blind Willie Johnson The Biography.
Revelation Blind Willie Johnson The Biography. 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
36.
The Ballad of Blind Tom, Slave Pianist
The Ballad of Blind Tom, Slave Pianist 3.83 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Blind Tom, the Black Pianist-Composer (1849-1908): Continually Enslaved
Blind Tom, the Black Pianist-Composer (1849-1908): Continually Enslaved 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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For the Benefit of Those Who See: Dispatches from the World of the Blind
For the Benefit of Those Who See: Dispatches from the World of the Blind 3.68 avg rating — 374 ratings
39.
Stefan Grossman's Early Masters of American Blues Guitar: Blind Blake, Book & Online Audio
Stefan Grossman's Early Masters of American Blues Guitar: Blind Blake, Book & Online Audio 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Wheels of Courage: How Paralyzed Veterans from World War II Invented Wheelchair Sports, Fought for Disability Rights, and Inspired a Nation
Wheels of Courage: How Paralyzed Veterans from World War II Invented Wheelchair Sports, Fought for Disability Rights, and Inspired a Nation 4.40 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Nujeen: One Girl's Incredible Journey from War‐Torn Syria in a Wheelchair
Nujeen: One Girl's Incredible Journey from War‐Torn Syria in a Wheelchair 4.06 avg rating — 2,314 ratings
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The Man He Became: How FDR Defied Polio to Win the Presidency
The Man He Became: How FDR Defied Polio to Win the Presidency 4.26 avg rating — 492 ratings
43.
Warm Springs
Warm Springs 4.30 avg rating — 10 ratings
44.
Every Day Is a Gift: A Memoir
Every Day Is a Gift: A Memoir 4.55 avg rating — 3,183 ratings
45.
One Soldier's Story
One Soldier's Story
by: Bob Dole
4.07 avg rating — 616 ratings
46.
Portrait of Spirit: One Story at a Time
Portrait of Spirit: One Story at a Time it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Broken Road: George Wallace and a Daughter’s Journey to Reconciliation
The Broken Road: George Wallace and a Daughter’s Journey to Reconciliation 3.70 avg rating — 462 ratings
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I'll Scream Later
I'll Scream Later 3.61 avg rating — 1,761 ratings