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Elizabeth Daniels Squire
July 1926 – February 2001 Mystery writer & Journalist 🔊 Listen Due to a lifelong struggle with dyslexia, schoolwork – especially reading and writing – presented Elizabeth Daniels-Squire with great difficulties. Yet, gifted with resilience and a desire to succeed, Elizabeth […]
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Novelist 🔊 Listen Once the fog lifts, dyslexics are prone to genius. Because theirs is such a unique way of looking at reality. Books: Macho Burro Genius Rain of Gold
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2008 Pulitzer Prize for poetry 🔊 Listen [My tutor] worked with me to try to teach me how to read, without any success at all. And one day out of frustration asked me what I thought I was going to […]
» Read moreWilliam Butler Yeats
13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939 Poet, Playwright – Nobel Prize in Literature (1923) 🔊 Listen William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. His first works were published in the mid-1880s while […]
» Read moreBernie Taylor
Author, Outdoorsman 🔊 Listen Bernie Taylor is a contemporary author who writes about nature and the outdoors. He says: I found out that I am dyslexic recently, at 38 years of age. Oddly enough I am a writer and author. I […]
» Read moreNatasha Solomons
Contemporary Novelist 🔊 Listen I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I’m a story monster. But I’m dyslexic so learning to write was really hard for me. As is spelling the word dyslexic. It’s a really mean word […]
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Author, Radio Broadcast Journalist 🔊 Listen I have found the gifts that come with being dyslexic and it is such a pleasure to have them. Nelson Lauver is the host of the American Storyteller Radio Journal and author of the […]
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Press Officer 🔊 Listen I never imagined I’d be able to work in PR because it involves so much writing – but there’s a lot more to it than that. Yes, good writing skills are crucial – but I manage! […]
» Read moreAmber Lee Dodd
Playwright and Children’s Author 🔊 Listen I really struggled to read because I was horrifically dyslexic. I was the last child to come off reading books, but when I finally managed to pick up the skills to be able to […]
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