Flashcards: Deaf writers

Charles-Marie-Photius Maurras (French: [ʃaʁl moʁas]; 20 April 1868 – 16 November 1952) was a French author, poet, and critic.

Lars Aanonsen Havstad (3 February 1851 – 29 August 1913) was a Norwegian statistician, writer, secretary in the Liberal Party, newspaper editor and activist.

Laura Redden Searing (born February 9, 1839 in Somerset County, Maryland) was a deaf poet and journalist.

Bernard Bragg (born 1928) is a deaf actor, producer, director, playwright, artist, and author who is notable for being a co-founder of the National Theatre of the Deaf and for his contributions to Deaf performing culture.

Louise Stern (born 1978) is an American writer and artist, and works around ideas of language, communication and isolation.

Judith Arundell Wright (31 May 1915 – 25 June 2000) was an Australian poet, environmentalist and campaigner for Aboriginal land rights.

Patricia Carlon (9 January 1927 – 29 July 2002) was an Australian crime fiction writer whose most notable works are fourteen suspenseful novels published between 1961 and 1970.

Dumitru Constantin Moruzi (also known as Dimitrie Moruzi or Moruzzi; Russian: Дмитрий Константинович Мурузи, Dmitry Konstantinovich Muruzi; July 1 or 2, 1850 – October 9, 1914) was a Moldavian-born Imperial Russian and Romanian aristocrat, civil servant and writer.

Francisc Iosif Rainer (December 28, 1874 – August 4, 1944) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian pathologist, physiologist and anthropologist.

Ace Mahbaz (born 25. June 1986) is an actor and writer, known for Small World.

Donald Douglas Harington (December 22, 1935 – November 7, 2009) was an American author.

Amy Judith Levy (10 November 1861 – 10 September 1889) was a British essayist, poet, and novelist best remembered for her literary gifts; her experience as the first Jewish woman at Cambridge University and as a pioneering woman student at Newnham College, Cambridge; her feminist positions; her friendships with others living what came later to be called a "new woman" life, some of whom were lesbians; and her relationships with both women and men in literary and politically activist circles in London during the 1880s.

Emilio Insolera is a director and actor, known for Sign Gene (2016).

Julia Lester Dillon (1871—1959) was a teacher from Georgia, who because of the death of her husband and her hearing loss, trained in landscape architecture.

Lowell Dale Morgan (December 18, 1914 – March 30, 1971), generally cited as Dale Morgan or Dale L.

J (Joseph) Schuyler Long (1869 - October 31, 1933) was an educator, author, and principal.

Jan is the pseudonym of Juan López Fernández (born 13 March 1939), Spanish comic book writer and artist, most famous for his creation Superlópez.

Benjamin James Bahan is a professor of ASL and Deaf Studies at Gallaudet University and a member of the Deaf community.

Teresa de Cartagena (c.1425–?) was a Spanish author and nun who fell deaf between 1453 and 1459.

Eugen D. Relgis (backward reading of Eisig D. Sigler; first name also Eugenio, Eugène or Eugene, last name also Siegler or Siegler Watchel; (22 March 1895 – 24 May 1987) was a Romanian writer, pacifist philosopher and anarchist militant, known as a theorist of humanitarianism. His internationalist dogma, with distinct echoes from Judaism and Jewish ethics, was first shaped during World War I, when Relgis was a conscientious objector. Infused with anarcho-pacifism and socialism, it provided Relgis with an international profile, and earned him the support of pacifists such as Romain Rolland, Stefan Zweig and Albert Einstein. Another, more controversial, aspect of Relgis' philosophy was his support for eugenics, which centered on the compulsory sterilization of "degenerates". The latter propo

Born in 1747 in the Touraine region of France, Pierre Desloges moved to Paris as a young man, where he became a bookbinder and upholsterer.

Doug Alker (born 1940) is the former chair of the British Deaf Association and the Royal National Institute for the Deaf.

Tom L. Humphries is an American academic, author, and lecturer on Deaf culture and communication.

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Carol A. Padden (born 1955 in Washington, D.C.) is an American academic, author, and lecturer.

David John Murray Wright (23 February 1920 – 28 August 1994) was an author and "an acclaimed South African-born poet".

Ilya Kaminsky (born April 18, 1977 in Odessa, Soviet Union, now Ukraine) is a hard-of-hearing Ukrainian born Russian-Jewish-American poet, critic, translator and professor.