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Disability Autobiography and Memoir BibliographyCompiled by Stephanie L. KerschbaumCompiled April 2012Updated March 2013Note: Quite a few of these books have been reprinted or have paperback editions. Consequently, the citation information for the edition you have may be different from what is listed here.Andrews, Tom. Codeine Diary: True Confessions of a Reckless Hemophiliac. San Diego: Harcourt Brace, 1998. Print.Ansay, A. Manette. Limbo: A Memoir. New York: Perennial, 2001. Print.B, David. Epileptic. New York: Pantheon Books, 2005. Print.Bauby, Jean-Dominique. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. New York: Vintage, 1998. Print.Bechdel, Alison. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic. Boston: Mariner Books, 2006. Print.Bérubé, Michael. Life As We Know It: A Father, a Family, and an Exceptional Child. New York: Pantheon Books, 1996. Print.Bliss, Eula. “The Pain Scale.” The Seneca Review (Spring 2005): 5-25.Brabner, Joyce, Harvey Pekar, and Frank Stack. Our Cancer Year. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1994. Print.Bragg, Bernard. Lessons in Laughter. Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet UP, 1989.Brennan, Karen. Being with Rachel: A Personal Story of Memory and Survival. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2002. Print.Brown, Jeffrey. Funny Misshapen Body. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2009. Callahan, John. Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot. New York: Vintage, 1989. Print.Cheney, Terri. Manic: A Memoir. New York: HarperCollins, 2008. Print.Clare, Eli. Exile and Pride. Boston: South End Press, 2009. (first published in 1999).Clare, Eli. The Marrow’s Telling. Ypsilanti, MI: Homofactus Press, 2007.Clell, Madison. Cuckoo. Portland, OR: Green Door Studios, 2002. Print.?Cockburn, Patrick and Henry Cockburn. Henry’s Demons: Living with Schizophrenia, A Father and Son’s Story. New York: Scribner, 2011.Cohen, Richard. Blindsided: Lifting a Life Above Illness: A Reluctant Memoir. New York: HarperCollins, 2004. Print.Connolly, Kevin. Double Take: A Memoir. New York: HarperCollins, 2010. Print.Davison, Al. The Spiral Cage. Los Angeles, CA: Active Images/Astral Gypsy Press, 2003.De Rossi, Portia. Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain. New York: Atria Books, 2010. Print.Dorris, Michael. The Broken Cord. New York: Harper Perennial, 1990.Dubus, Andre. Broken Vessels. Boston: D.R. Godine, 1991.Dubus, Andre. Meditations from a Moveable Chair. New York: Vintage, 1999.Ehrenreich, Barbara. Bright-Sided: How Positive Thinking is Undermining America. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2010. Print.Engelberg, Miriam. Cancer Made Me a Shallower Person: A Memoir in Comics. New York, NY: Harper, 2006. Print.Finger, Anne. Elegy for a Disease: A Personal and Cultural History of Polio. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2006. Print.Finger, Anne. Past Due: A Story of Disability, Pregnancy, and Birth. Seattle, WA: Seal Press, 1990.Fomey, Ellen. Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me: A Graphic Memoir. New York: Gotham Books, 2012.Fox, Michael J. Lucky Man: A Memoir. New York: Hyperion, 2002. Print.Fox, Michael J. Always Looking Up: Adventures of an Incurable Optimist. New York: Hyperion, 2009. Print.Fries, Kenny. Body, Remember: A Memoir. New York: Penguin Books, 1997. Print.Fries, Kenny. The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin’s Theory. New York: Penguin Putnam, 1997. Print.Galloway, Terry. Mean Little Deaf Queer. Boston: Beacon Press, 2009.Geller, Jeffrey and Maxine Harris. Women of the Asylum: Voices From Behind the Walls, 1840–1945. New York: Anchor Books, 1994. Print.Grandin, Temple. Thinking in Pictures and Other Reports from My Life with Autism. New York: Vintage Books, 1995. Print.Grealy, Lucy. Autobiography of a Face. New York: Harper Perennial, 1994. Print.Guest, Paul. One More Theory About Happiness. Ecco. 2010.Hall, Meredith. Without a Map: A Memoir. Boston: Beacon, 2007. Print.Hockenberry, John. Moving Violations: War Zones, Wheelchairs, and Declarations of Independence. New York: Hyperion, 1995. Print.Hornbacher, Mayra. Wasted: A Memoir of Bulimia and Anorexia Nervosa. New York: Harper Perennial, 1999.Hornbacher, Mayra. Madness: A Bipolar Life. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2008.Jamison, Kay Redfield. An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness. New York: Vintage, 1996. Print.Jamison, Kay Redfield. Nothing Was the Same: A Memoir. New York: Knopf, 2009. Print.Johnson, Harriet McBryde. Too Late to Die Young: Nearly True Tales from a Life. New York: Picador, 2005. Print.Johnson, Merri Lisa. Girl in Need of a Tourniquet: Memoir of a Borderline Personality. Berkeley, CA: Seal Press, 2010. Print.Karasik, Paul and Judy Karasik. The Ride Together: A Brother and Sister’s Memoir of Autism in the Family. CITY: Washington Square Press, 2003.Keller, Helen. The Restored Classic: The Story of My Life. Ed. Roger Shattuck with Dorothy Herrmann. New York: Norton, 2003. Print.Kleege, Georgina. Sight Unseen. New Haven: Yale UP, 1999. Print.Kriegel, Leonard. Flying Solo: Reimagining Manhood, Courage, and Loss. Boston: Beacon Press, 1998.Knighton, Ryan. Cockeyed: A Memoir. Cambridge, MA: Perseus, 2009.Kuusisto, Stephen. Eavesdropping: A Memoir of Blindness and Listening. New York: W.W. Norton, 2006. Print.Kuusisto, Stephen. Planet of the Blind. New York: Delta Publishing Group Inc., 1998. Print.Laborit, Emmanuelle. Le Cri de la Mouette. Paris: R. Laffont, 1994. Print. (English version: The Cry of the Gull. Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet UP, 1999. Print.)Lachenmeyer, Nicholas. The Outsider: A Journey into My Father’s Struggle with Madness. New York: Broadway Books, 2000.Landers, David. Fall Down, Laughing: How Squiggy Caught Multiple Sclerosis and Didn't Tell Nobody. New York: Putnam, 2000.Lapper, Alison. My Life in My Hands. London: Simon & Schuster UK, 2005. Print.Lemon, Alex. Happy: A Memoir. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2010. Linton, Simi. My Body Politic. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 2005. Print.Lorde, Audre. The Cancer Journals. San Francisco, CA: Aunt Lute Books, 1997.Lorde, Audre. Zami: A New Spelling of My Name: A Biomythography. Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press, 1982.Luczak, Raymond. Assembly Required: Notes of a Deaf Gay Writer. Alexandria, VA: RID Press, 2009.Luczak, Raymond. Silence is a Four Letter Word: On Art and Deafness. Minneapolis, MN: Tactile Mind Press, 2002. (Review in Wordgathering: )Mairs, Nancy. Plaintext: Deciphering a Woman’s Life. New York: Harper, 1986. Print.Mairs, Nancy. Waist-High in the World: A Life among the Nondisabled. Boston: Beacon, 1996. Print.Mairs, Nancy. Voice Lessons: On Becoming a (Woman) Writer. Boston: Beacon Press, 1994.Manguso, Sarah. The Two Kinds of Decay. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008. Print.Marchetto, Marisa Acocella. Cancer Vixen: A True Story. New York: Knopf, 2006. Print.Mattlin, Ben. Miracle Boy Grows Up: How the Disability Rights Revolution Saved my Sanity. New York: Skyhorse Pub, 2012.Metzl, Jonathan. Prozac on the Couch: Prescribing Gender in the Era of Wonder Drugs.Durham: Duke University Press, 2003.Middlebrook, Christina. Seeing the Crab: A Memoir of Dying Before I Do. New York: Basic Books, 1996. Print.Millet, Kate. The Loony Bin Trip. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1990. Print.Mooney, Jonathan. The Short Bus: A Journey Beyond Normal. New York: Henry Holt, 2007. Print.Murphy, Robert. The Body Silent: The Different World of the Disabled. New York: Henry Holt, 1987. Print.Myers, Karen and Felicia Ferlin, eds. My Body of Knowledge: Stories of Chronic Illness, Disability, Healing and Life. San Francisco: Cracked Bell Publishing, 2008. Print.Nolan, Christopher. Under the Eye of the Clock: The Life Story of Christopher Nolan. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1988.O’Brien, Ruth, ed. Voices from the Edge: Narratives about the Americans with Disabilities Act. New York: Oxford UP, 2004. Print.Olivas, Gina. Alone in the Mainstream: A Deaf Woman Remembers Public School. Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet UP, 2004. Print.Osborn, Claudia L. Over My Head: A Doctor’s Own Story of Head Injury from the Inside Looking Out. Kansas City, MO: Andrews McMeel Publishing, 1998. Print.Patchett, Ann. Truth and Beauty: A Friendship. New York: Harper Perennial, 2004. Print.Pineda, Jon. Sleep in Me. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 2010. Print.Presley, Gary. Seven Wheelchairs: A Life Beyond Polio. Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 2008.Prince-Hughes, Dawn. Songs of the Gorilla Nation: My Journey Through Autism. New York: Three Rivers Press, 2004. Print.Rajamani, Ashok. The Day My Brain Exploded. Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2013.Rapp, Emily. The Still Point of the Turning World. New York: Penguin Press, 2013.Reeve, Christopher. Still Me. New York: Random House, 1998.Reeve, Christopher. Nothing is Impossible: Reflections on a New Life. New York: Random House, 2002.Richard, Mark. House of Prayer No. 2. New York: Doubleday, 2011.Roth, William. Movement: A Memoir of Disability, Cancer, and the Holocaust. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008. Print.Rousso, Harilyn. Don’t Call Me Inspirational! Philadelphia, PA: Temple UP, 2012. Print. (Review in Wordgathering: )Sacks, Oliver. A Leg to Stand on. New York: Summit Books, 1984.Saks, Elyn. The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness. New York: Hyperion, 2008. Print. Savarese, Ralph James. Reasonable People: A Memoir of Autism and Adoption. New York: Other, 2007. Print.Segalman, Bob. Against the Current: My Life with Cerebral Palsy. Verona, WI: Full Court Press, 2009.Sidransky, Ruth. In Silence: Growing Up Hearing in a Deaf World. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1990.Sienkiewicz-Mercer, Ruth. I Raise My Eyes to Say Yes. Boston: Hougton-Mifflin, 1989.Simon, Rachel. Riding the Bus with My Sister: A True Life Journey. New York: Plume, 2003.Slater, Lauren. Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir. New York: Random House, 2000.Slater, Lauren. Welcome to My Country. New York: Random House, 1996.Small, David. Stitches: A Memoir. New York: W.W. Norton & Co, 2009. Print.Strayed, Cheryl. Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Coast Trail. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2012. Print.Styron, William. Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness. New York: Random House, 1990.Swartz, Leslie. Able-Bodied: Scenes from a Curious Life. Cape Town: Zebra Press, 2010. (Review in Wordgathering: ) Tammet, Daniel. Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant. New York: Free Press, 2006. Print.Taylor, Jill Bolte. My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey. New York: Viking, 2008.Telgemeier, Raina. Smile. New York: Graphix, 2010. Print.Tracy, Terry. A Great Place for a Seizure: A Novelory. United States: CreateSpace, 2011. (Note: this is a work of fiction, but with some autobiographical elements).Wagner, Pamela Spiro and Carolyn S. Spiro. Divided Minds: Twin Sisters and their Journey Through Schizophrenia. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2005. Print.Ware, Chris. Building Stories. New York: Pantheon Books, 2012.Williams, Donna. Nobody Nowhere: The Remarkable Autobiography of an Autistic Girl. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 1992. Print.Williams, Donna. Somebody Somewhere: Breaking Free from the World of Autism. New York: Three Rivers Press, 1994. Print.Woodruff, Lee and Bob Woodruff. In an Instant: A Family's Journey of Love and Healing. New York: Random House, 2007. Print.Wortmann, Fletcher. Trigger: A Memoir of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2012.Zulu, Masa. The Language of Me. Natal Press, University of KwaZulu. 2004. (Reviewed in Wordgathering: )Zulu, William. Spring Will Come. Natal Press, University of KwaZulu, 2005.***Thanks to the following individuals for their help in compiling this list: Leora Amir, Brenda Brueggemann, G. Thomas Couser, John Duffy, Margaret Fink, Franny Howes, Kristin Lindgren, Mike Northen, Margaret Price, Carol Schilling, Hilary Selznick, Amy Vidali, Muffy Walter. ................
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