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 […]

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Stephen Cannell

February 5, 1941 – September 30, 2010 Television Screen Writer & Producer 🔊 Listen I’ve wanted to be a novelist since I was 16 years old; it was my dream in high school to be a writer and novelist. In […]

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Andrew Dornenburg

Chef, Author 🔊 Listen I can come up with an impressive assortment of ways to spell the same word…. As a dyslexic, in fact, I specialize in misspelling words. It’s one of the things that convinced me years ago that […]

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John Corrigan

Mystery Writer & Educator 🔊 Listen In 1979, prior to many discoveries in the field of learning disabilities, I was broadly diagnosed as “learning disabled, presumed dyslexic” — a theme that resonates through some of my works. John Corrigan is a […]

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Eileen Simpson

1918 – 2002 Author and Psychotherapist 🔊 Listen There was something wrong with my brain. What had previously been a shadowy suspicion that hovered on the edge of consciousness became certain knowledge the year I was nine and entered fourth […]

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Agatha Christie

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 […]

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Jane Elson

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 […]

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Hans Christian Andersen

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, […]

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