Famous Category: Literature

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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Scott Adams

Cartoonist, Creator of “Dilbert” 🔊 Listen I assume my dyslexia super power allows me to detect truth in ways that regular mortals cannot

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Richard Engel

Author and Television News Foreign Correspondent 🔊 Listen I now think being dyslexic is a privilege. Because – who wants to think like everybody else? As a school child: My grades were poor and my behavior was erratic, mostly bad. I got […]

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Byron Pitts

Journalist and Author 🔊 Listen I started failing math. The school tested me to see why I was struggling and found out I couldn’t read the directions. I was tested further and it was determined I was functionally illiterate. At […]

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Larry Chambers

Author and writing instructor 🔊 Listen Larry Chambers is a prolific writer who has written more than 1,000 magazine articles and 50 published book on a variety of topics.  Many of his books are based on his experience as a decorated […]

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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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