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Charley Boorman
Actor, Adventurer, Travel Writer – President of Dyslexia Action Charity Listen At the time when I was going to school in Ireland people didn’t really have a clue about what it was, so I had to spend a lot of […]
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15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976 Mystery Writer, Playwright Listen Writing and spelling were always terribly difficult for me. My letters were without originality. I was…an extraordinarily bad speller and have remained so. Dame Agatha Christie was a prolific […]
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Children’s author and playwright. Listen I was bullied at school. I was an undiagnosed dyslexic and dyspraxic, which made me an easy target. The kid who was clumsy and very uncoordinated – so easy to mock. I hated PE so […]
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April 2, 1805 – August 4, 1875 Artist, Poet and Writer of Children’s Fairy Tales Listen Hans Christian Andersen was a 19th century Danish writer. Although a prolific writer of plays, travel books, novels, he is best known his fairy tales, such […]
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September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940 Novelist & Short Story Writer Listen F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of The Great Gatsby, was notoriously bad at spelling. Although he was an avid reader and showed an early talent for writing, Fitzgerald was a […]
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born December 23, 1937 Writer of children’s and young adult fiction Listen Avi is the pen name adopted by by children’s author Edward Irving Wortis. He has written more than 70 books geared to children and young adults. He won the Newbery […]
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12 December 1821 – 8 May 1880 Novelist Listen Having made a strenuous effort to understand the symbols he could make nothing of, [Gustave Flaubert] wept giant tears…. For a long time he could not understand the elementary connection that […]
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Children’s Book Author & Screenwriter Listen People are often surprised to learn that I am dyslexic. They think that being dyslexic would prevent me from being a successful writer. I believe that being dyslexic has helped me as a writer. […]
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Fantasy writer, author of The Sword of Truth series Listen I’m a born storyteller. My earliest memories are of telling myself stories. I lived with the characters from the stories in my head. When I was little I remember playing […]
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