Disability Autobiography and Memoir Bibliography Compiled by Stephanie L. Kerschbaum, April 2012 Bauby, Jean-Dominique. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. New York: Vintage, 1998. Print. Bérubé, Michael. Life As We Know It: A Father, a Family, and an Exceptional Child. New York: Pantheon Books, 1996. Print. Callahan, John. Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot. New York: Vintage Books, 1989. Print. Cheney, Terri. Manic: A Memoir. New York: HarperCollins, 2008. Print. Cohen, Richard. Blindsided: Lifting a Life Above Illness: A Reluctant Memoir. New York: HarperCollins, 2004. Print. Ehrenreich, Barbara. Bright-Sided: How Positive Thinking is Underming America. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2010. Print. Finger, Anne. Elegy for a Disease: A Personal and Cultural History of Polio. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2006. Print. Grandin, Temple. Thinking in Pictures and Other Reports from My Life with Autism. New York: Vintage Books, 1995. Print. Grealy, Lucy. Autobiography of a Face. New York: Harper Perennial, 1994. Print. Hall, Meredith. Without a Map: A Memoir. Boston: Beacon, 2007. Print. Hockenberry, John. Moving Violations: War Zones, Wheelchairs, and Declarations of Independence. New York: Hyperion, 1995. Print. Jamison, Kay Redfield. An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness. New York: Vintage, 1996. Print. Jamison, Kay Redfield. Nothing Was the Same: A Memoir. New York: Knopf, 2009. Print. Johnson, Harriet McBryde. Too Late to Die Young: Nearly True Tales from a Life. New York: Picador, 2005. Print. Johnson, Merri Lisa. Girl in Need of a Tourniquet: Memoir of a Borderline Personality. Berkeley, CA: Seal Press, 2010. Print. Keller, Helen. The Restored Classic: The Story of My Life. Ed. Roger Shattuck with Dorothy Herrmann. New York: Norton, 2003. Print. Kleege, Georgina. Sight Unseen. New Haven: Yale UP, 1999. Print. Kuusisto, Stephen. Eavesdropping: A Memoir of Blindness and Listening. New York: W.W. Norton, 2006. Print. Kuusisto, Stephen. Planet of the Blind. New York: Delta Publishing Group Inc., 1998. Print. Laborit, Emmanuelle. Le Cri de la Mouette. Paris: R. Laffont, 1994. Print. (English version: The Cry of the Gull. Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet UP, 1999. Print.) Linton, Simi. My Body Politic. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 2005. Print. Mairs, Nancy. Plaintext: Deciphering a Woman’s Life. New York: Harper, 1986. Print. Mairs, Nancy. Waist-High in the World: A Life Among the Nondisabled. Boston: Beacon, 1996. Print. Manguso, Sarah. The Two Kinds of Decay. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008. Print. Marchetto, Marisa Acocella. Cancer Vixen: A True Story. New York: Knopf, 2006. Print. Metzl, Jonathan. Prozac on the Couch: Prescribing Gender in the Era of Wonder Drugs. Durham: Duke University Press, 2003. Middlebrook, Christina. Seeing the Crab: A Memoir of Dying Before I Do. New York: Basic Books, 1996. Print. Millet, Kate. The Loony Bin Trip. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1990. Print. Murphy, Robert. The Body Silent: The Different World of the Disabled. New York: Henry Holt, 1987. Print. O’Brien, Ruth, ed. Voices from the Edge: Narratives about the Americans with Disabilities Act. New York: Oxford UP, 2004. Print. Patchett, Ann. Truth and Beauty: A Friendship. New York: Harper Perennial, 2004. Print. Jon Pineda's Sleep in Me. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 2010. Print. Prince-Hughes, Dawn. Songs of the Gorilla Nation: My Journey Through Autism. New York: Three Rivers Press, 2004. Print. Roth, William. Movement: A Memoir of Disability, Cancer, and the Holocaust. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008. Print. Savarese, Ralph James. Reasonable People: A Memoir of Autism and Adoption. New York: Other, 2007. Print. Tammet, Daniel. Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant. New York: Free Press, 2006. Print. Wagner, Pamela Spiro and Carolyn S. Spiro. Divided Minds: Twin Sisters and their Journey Through Schizophrenia. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2005. Print. Williams, Donna. Nobody Nowhere: The Remarkable Autobiography of an Autistic Girl. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 1992. Print. Williams, Donna. Somebody Somewhere: Breaking Free from the World of Autism. New York: Three Rivers Press, 1994. Print. Geller, Jeffrey and Maxine Harris. Women of the Asylum: Voices From Behind the Walls, 1840– 1945. New York: Anchor Books, 1994. Print. **** Thanks to the following individuals for their help in compiling this list: Brenda Brueggemann, John Duffy, Kristin Lindgren, Margaret Price, Hilary Selznick, Amy Vidali, Muffy Walter.