Best Biographies of People with Physical Disabilities (52 books)

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In the following list you will find memoirs and biographies of people who born with physical disabilities or became disabled as a result of a tragic accident.

These memoirs are sharing with the hard experience of being disabled. That performing "normal" daily tasks could become a nightmare.

The heroes of these books were brave enough to face their challenges, and they became even stronger.

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1	Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body by Rebekah Taussig 4.40 avg rating — 10,100 ratings score: 394, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	Spineless by Joshua Smith (Goodreads Author) 4.93 avg rating — 14 ratings score: 200, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death by Jean-Dominique Bauby 3.98 avg rating — 78,267 ratings score: 200, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	My Left Foot by Christy Brown 4.05 avg rating — 9,199 ratings score: 193, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	Every Day Is a Gift: A Memoir by Tammy Duckworth 4.56 avg rating — 3,312 ratings score: 171, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	Gianna: Aborted...and Lived to Tell About It (Living Books) by Jessica Shaver Renshaw really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 767 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	Goalkeeper: Memoir of Poet Peter Street by Peter Street (Goodreads Author) 4.58 avg rating — 12 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	Able-Bodied Like Me: Navigating & balancing cultures from the seat of my pants by Matt Glowacki 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	The View From Down Here: Life as a Young Disabled Woman by Lucy Webster 4.29 avg rating — 406 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	A Limp of Faith: Memoir of a Disabled Disciple by Suzanne Rood 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	Heart of a Patriot: How I Found the Courage to Survive Vietnam, Walter Reed and Karl Rove by Max Cleland 3.90 avg rating — 83 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	It's Not Yet Dark by Simon Fitzmaurice 4.16 avg rating — 2,896 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	Messenger: The Legacy of Mattie J.T. Stepanek and Heartsongs by Jeni Stepanek 4.46 avg rating — 656 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	A Certain Loneliness: A Memoir by Sandra Gail Lambert (Goodreads Author) 4.43 avg rating — 93 ratings score: 98, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	Moving Violations: War Zones, Wheelchairs, and Declarations of Independence by John Hockenberry 4.09 avg rating — 537 ratings score: 98, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	Emma V.I.P. by Sheila Hocken 4.08 avg rating — 93 ratings score: 98, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	The Story of My Life by Helen Keller 4.07 avg rating — 151,530 ratings score: 98, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	Messenger: The Amazing Story of Mattie J.T. Stepanek and Heartsongs by Jeni Stepanek 4.46 avg rating — 656 ratings score: 98, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	Summers of Fire: A Memoir of Adventure, Love and Courage by Linda Strader (Goodreads Author) 4.19 avg rating — 27 ratings score: 97, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	Hurricane Street by Ron Kovic 3.98 avg rating — 44 ratings score: 97, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	The God Squad by Paddy Doyle 3.85 avg rating — 348 ratings score: 97, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	Unsinkable: From Russian Orphan to Paralympic Swimming World Champion by Jessica Long 3.96 avg rating — 243 ratings score: 97, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	Stephen Hawking: His Life and Work by Kitty Ferguson 3.80 avg rating — 203 ratings score: 96, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation by Sunaura Taylor 4.56 avg rating — 735 ratings score: 96, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	My Brief History by Stephen W. Hawking 3.63 avg rating — 11,364 ratings score: 96, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	Don't Suck, Don't Die: Giving Up Vic Chesnutt by Kristin Hersh 4.01 avg rating — 845 ratings score: 95, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	Unseen: How I Lost My Vision but Found My Voice by Molly Burke 4.07 avg rating — 2,369 ratings score: 95, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	Ray Charles: Voice of Soul by David Ritz 4.20 avg rating — 20 ratings score: 93, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	Unfit Parent: A Disabled Mother Challenges an Inaccessible World by Jessica Slice (Goodreads Author) 4.45 avg rating — 355 ratings score: 93, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
30	Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law by Haben Girma 4.19 avg rating — 5,442 ratings score: 92, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
30	Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist by Judith Heumann 4.48 avg rating — 6,993 ratings score: 92, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
32	Hello Darkness, My Old Friend: How Daring Dreams and Unyielding Friendship Turned One Man's Blindness into an Extraordinary Vision for Life by Sanford D. Greenberg (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 852 ratings score: 91, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
32	Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman's Fight to End Ableism by Elsa Sjunneson 4.37 avg rating — 745 ratings score: 91, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
34	The Songs of Blind Folk: African American Musicians and the Cultures of Blindness by Terry Rowden 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings score: 90, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
35	Unexampled Courage: The Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard and the Awakening of President Harry S. Truman and Judge J. Waties Waring by Richard Gergel 4.42 avg rating — 679 ratings score: 89, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
36	Blind Tom: The Post-Civil War Enslavement of a Black Musical Genius by Geneva H. Southall 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 88, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
37	No Barriers by Erik Weihenmayer (Goodreads Author) 4.11 avg rating — 895 ratings score: 87, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
38	Blind but Now I See: The Biography of Music Legend Doc Watson by Kent Gustavson (Goodreads Author) 3.76 avg rating — 205 ratings score: 86, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
39	Hand Me My Travelin' Shoes: In Search of Blind Willie McTell by Michael Gray (Goodreads Author) 3.96 avg rating — 111 ratings score: 85, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
40	Revelation Blind Willie Johnson The Biography. by D.N. Blakey 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings score: 84, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
41	The Ballad of Blind Tom, Slave Pianist by Deirdre O'Connell 3.80 avg rating — 44 ratings score: 83, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
42	Blind Tom, the Black Pianist-Composer (1849-1908): Continually Enslaved by Geneva Handy Southall 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings score: 82, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
43	For the Benefit of Those Who See: Dispatches from the World of the Blind by Rosemary Mahoney 3.67 avg rating — 379 ratings score: 81, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
44	Stefan Grossman's Early Masters of American Blues Guitar: Blind Blake, Book & Online Audio by Blind Blake 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings score: 80, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
45	Wheels of Courage: How Paralyzed Veterans from World War II Invented Wheelchair Sports, Fought for Disability Rights, and Inspired a Nation by David Davis 4.38 avg rating — 37 ratings score: 79, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
46	Nujeen: One Girl's Incredible Journey from War‐Torn Syria in a Wheelchair by Nujeen Mustafa 4.06 avg rating — 2,384 ratings score: 78, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
47	The Man He Became: How FDR Defied Polio to Win the Presidency by James Tobin (Goodreads Author) 4.27 avg rating — 504 ratings score: 77, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
48	Warm Springs by David M. Burke Jr. 4.30 avg rating — 10 ratings score: 76, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
49	One Soldier's Story by Bob Dole 4.07 avg rating — 631 ratings score: 74, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
50	Portrait of Spirit: One Story at a Time by Maggie Holtzberg it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating score: 73, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
51	The Broken Road: George Wallace and a Daughter’s Journey to Reconciliation by Peggy Wallace Kennedy 3.69 avg rating — 465 ratings score: 72, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
52	I'll Scream Later by Marlee Matlin 3.63 avg rating — 1,895 ratings score: 71, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars