This title presents essays on narrative works written by persons with disabilities. The disabilities covered in these works are mostly physical, but psychological/psychiatric conditions, developmental/intellectual impairments, and addiction are also included. A pedagogical piece from the editor discusses various ways the contents can be used in the classroom, and a subject index is also included.

Published in association with Layman Poupard Publishing.

v. 1. Able-bodied : scenes from a curious life (2010) / Leslie Swartz. "Account from Paris of a terrible operation" (1812) / Frances Burney. After the stroke : a journal (1988) / May Sarton. And there was light : the extraordinary memoir of a blind hero of the French resistance in World War II (1953) / Jacques Lusseyran. Aphasia, my world alone (1973) / Helen Harlan Wulf. Assembly required : notes from a deaf gay life (2009) / Raymond Luczak. Autobiography of a face (1994) / Lucy Grealy. The autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809-1882 (1887) / Charles Darwin. Autobiography of James L. Smith : including, also, reminiscences of slave life, recollections of the war, education of freedmen, causes of the exodus, etc. (1881) / James L. Smith. The ballad of blind Tom (2009) / Deirdre O'Connell. The bells of Nagasaki (1949) / Takashi Nagai. Beyond the pale : folklore, family, and the mystery of our hidden genes (2015) / Emily Urquhart. Bitter medicine : a graphic memoir of mental illness (2010) / Clem Martini and Olivier Martini. Blindsided : lifting a life above illness : a reluctant memoir (2004) / Richard M. Cohen. Bob Flanagan : supermasochist (1993) / Bob Flanagan ; interviews by Andrea Juno and V. Vale. The body broken : a memoir (2009) / Lynne Greenberg. Body, remember : a memoir (1997) / Kenny Fries. The body silent : the different world of the disabled (1987) / Robert F. Murphy. A body, undone : living on after great pain (2016) / Christina Crosby. Born on a blue day : a memoir of Asperger's and an extraordinary mind (2006) / Daniel Tammet. Brain on fire : my month of madness (2012) / Susannah Cahalan. A brain wider than the sky : a migraine diary (2009) / Andrew Levy. Breath : a lifetime in the rhythm of an iron lung (2003) / Martha Mason. The broken cord : a family's ongoing struggle with fetal alcohol syndrome (1989) / Michael Dorris. Bug : deaf identity and internal revolution (2007) / Christopher Jon Heuer. The cancer journals (1980) / Audre Lorde. The center cannot hold : my journey through madness (2007) / Elyn R. Saks. A child of sanitariums : a memoir of tuberculosis survival and lifelong disability (2010) / Gloria Paris. City of corpses (1948) / Yoko Ota. Codeine diary : a memoir (1998) / Tom Andrews. Confessions of an English opium-eater : being an extract from the life of a scholar (1821) / Thomas De Quincey. Count us in : growing up with down syndrome (1994) / Jason Kingsley and Mitchell Levitz. The cry of the gull (1994) / Emmanuelle Laborit. Darkness visible : a memoir of madness (1990) / William Styron. The days : his autobiography in three parts (1926-1955) / Taha Hussein. Deaf in Delhi : a memoir (2006) / Madan Vasishta. The deaf mute howls (1930) / Albert Ballin. Deafness : a personal account (1969) / David Wright. Deep in the brain : living with Parkinson's disease (2006) / Helmut Dubiel. Deformity : an essay (1754) / William Hay. Diary drawings : mental illness and me (2010) / Bobby Baker. The diary of Alice James (late 1800s) / Alice James. The diary of Frida Kahlo : an intimate self-portrait (1995) / Frida Kahlo. Divided minds : twin sisters and their journey through schizophrenia (2005) / Pamela Spiro Wagner and Carolyn S. Spiro. The diving bell and the butterfly : a memoir of life in death (1997) / Jean-Dominique Bauby. Don't call me inspirational : a disabled feminist talks back (2013) / Harilyn Rousso. Double take : a memoir (2009) / Kevin Michael Connolly. Dry : a memoir (2003) / Augusten Burroughs. Elegy for Iris (1999) / John Bayley. Emergence : labeled autistic (1986) / Temple Grandin. Everything happens for a reason : and other lies I've loved (2018) / Kate Bowler. Exile and pride : disability, queerness, and liberation (1999) / Eli Clare. Exploding into life (1986) / Dorothea Lynch and Eugene Richards. Fading scars : my queer disability history (2015) / Corbett Joan OToole. Falling into life : essays (1991) / Leonard Kriegel. Fat girl : a true story (2005) / Judith Moore. The flock : the autobiography of a multiple personality (1991) / Joan Frances Casey, with Lynn Wilson. Fortunate son : the autobiography of Lewis B. Puller, Jr. (1991) / Lewis B. Puller, Jr. Fun home : a family tragicomedy (2006) / Alison Bechdel. Gaby Brimmer : an autobiography in three voices (1979) / Gabriela Brimmer, with Elena Poniatowska. "The GENIUS, number II" (1761) / George Colman the Elder. Geography of the heart : a memoir (1996) / Fenton Johnson. The girl from Aleppo : Nujeen's escape from war to freedom (2016) / Nujeen Mustafa, with Christina Lamb. Girl in need of a tourniquet : memoir of a borderline personality (2010) / Merri Lisa Johnson. Girl, interrupted (1993) / Susanna Kaysen. "Grove of the infirm" and "Wonder at the works of God" (1470s) / Teresa de Cartagena. Happy old year : an autobiography (1982) / Marcelo Rubens Paiva. A healing family (1995) / Kenzaburo Oe. Heart berries : a memoir (2018) / Terese Marie Mailhot. Heaven's coast : a memoir (1997) / Mark Doty. The history of the Carolina twins : told in "their own peculiar way" by "one of them" (1866-1869?) / Millie McKoy and Christine McKoy. Home bound : growing up with a disability in America (2004) / Cass Irvin. How I became a human being : a disabled man's quest for independence (2003) / Mark O'Brien, with Gillian Kendall. I knock at the door : swift glances back at things that made me (1939) / Sean O'Casey. I raise my eyes to say yes (1989) / Ruth Sienkiewicz-Mercer and Steven B. Kaplan. In our hearts we were giants : the remarkable story of the Lilliput Troupe, a dwarf family's survival of the Holocaust (2003) / Yehuda Koren and Eilat Negev. In praise of weakness (1999) / Alexandre Jollien. In the body of the world : a memoir of cancer and connection (2013) / Eve Ensler. In the face of death (1984) / Peter Noll. In the jaws of the black dogs : a memoir of depression (1995) / John Bentley Mays. In the land of pain (1897) / Alphonse Daudet. In the shadows of memory (2003) / Floyd Skloot. An Iranian odyssey (1991) / Gohar Kordi. It's not yet dark : a memoir (2014) / Simon Fitzmaurice. I've heard the vultures singing : field notes on poetry, illness, and nature (2007) / Lucia Perillo. The language of me (2004) / Musa E. Zulu. Learning sickness : a year with Crohn's disease (2004) / James M. Lang. Liar : a memoir (2016) / Rob Roberge. Life as we know it : a father, a family, and an exceptional child (1996) and Life as Jamie knows it: an exceptional child grows up (2016) / Michael Berube. Life prints : a memoir of healing and discovery (2000) / Mary Grimley Mason. Lighter than my shadow (2013) / Katie Green. Listening : ways of hearing in a silent world (1994) / Hannah Merker. Lit : a memoir (2009) / Mary Karr. The little locksmith : a memoir (1943) / Katharine Butler Hathaway. Little people : learning to see the world through my daughter's eyes (2003) / Dan Kennedy. A little pregnant : our memoir of fertility, infertility, and a marriage (1999) / Linda Carbone and Ed Decker. Long time, no see (2003) / Beth Finke. Look me in the eye : my life with Asperger's (2007) / John Elder Robison. The loony-bin trip (1990) / Kate Millett. Losing my mind : an intimate look at life with Alzheimer's (2002) / Thomas DeBaggio. Love like salt : a memoir (2016) / Helen Stevenson. Lucky man : a memoir (2002) / Michael J. Fox. Lying : a metaphorical memoir (2000) / Lauren Slater -- v. 2. Madonna Swan : A Lakota woman's story as told through Mark St. Pierre (1991) / Mark St. Pierre. The man of Jasmine (1971) / Unica Zürn. Man to man : surviving prostate cancer (1996) / Michael Korda. Mapping fate : a memoir of family, risk, and genetic research (1995) / Alice Wexler. Marbles : mania, depression, Michelangelo, & me (2012) / Ellen Forney. Matthew's enigma : a father's portrait of his autistic son (2003) / Matei Călinescu. The me in the mirror (1994) / Connie Panzarino. Mean little deaf queer : a memoir (2009) / Terry Galloway. Meaning of a disability : the lived experience of paralysis (1999) / Albert B. Robillard. Meditations from a movable chair : essays (1998) / Andre Dubus. Memoir of a debulked woman : enduring ovarian cancer (2012) / Susan Gubar. Memoir of the early life of William Cowper, Esq. (1816) / William Cowper. Memoirs of Mrs. Mary Robinson (1801) / Mary Robinson. Memoirs of my nervous illness (1903) / Daniel Paul Schreber. Memoirs of the celebrated dwarf, Joseph Boruwlaski, a Polish gentleman (1788) / Joseph Boruwlaski. Memory's last breath : field notes on my dementia (2017) / Gerda Saunders. The mind tree : a miraculous child breaks the silence of autism (2000) / Tito Rajarshi. Miracle boy grows up : how the disability rights revolution saved my sanity (2012) / Ben Mattlin. Missing pieces : a chronicle of living with a disability (1982) / Irving Kenneth Zola. Moonrise : one family, genetic identity, and muscular dystrophy (2003) / Penny Wolfson. Mortal embrace : living with AIDS (1987) / Emmanuel Dreuilhe. Moving violations : war zones, wheelchairs, and declarations of independence (1995) / John Hockenberry. My age of anxiety : fear, hope, dread, and the search for peace of mind (2013) / Scott Stossel. My left foot (1954) / Christy Brown. My life in my hands (2005) / Alison Lapper, with Guy Feldman. My stroke of insight : a brain scientist's personal journey (2006) / Jill Bolte Taylor. A nearly normal life : a memoir (1999) / Charles L. Mee. No one's perfect (1998) / Hirotada Ototake. Nobody nowhere : the extraordinary autobiography of an austistic (1992) / Donna Williams. The noonday demon : an atlas of depression (2001) / Andrew Solomon. Not all black girls know how to eat : a story of bulimia (2009) / Stephanie Covington Armstrong. Notes on the flesh (2017) / Shahd Alshammari. "On personal defects : proposals for an Ugly Club" (1711) / Richard Steele. One more theory about happiness : a memoir (2010) / Paul Guest. Out of joint : a private and public story of arthritis (2005) / Mary Felstiner. The outsider : a journey into my father's struggle with madness (2000) / Nathaniel Lachenmeyer. Over my head : a doctor's own story of head injury from the inside looking out (1998) / Claudia L. Osborn. "The pain scale" (2005) / Eula Biss. Pain woman takes your keys : and other essays from a nervous system (2017) / Sonya Huber. Passing for normal : a memoir of compulsion (1999) / Amy S. Wilensky. Past due : a story of disability, pregnancy and birth (1990) / Anne Finger. Planet of the blind : a memoir (1998) / Stephen Kuusisto. Poster child : a memoir (2007) / Emily Rapp. Prozac nation : young and depressed in America (1994) / Elizabeth Wurtzel. Putting myself in the picture : a political, personal and photographic autobiography (1986) / Jo Spence. The question of David : a disabled mother's journey through adoption, family, and life (1999) / Denise Sherer Jacobson. Reasonable people : a memoir of autism and adoption (2007) / Ralph James Savarese. Reflections : the life and writings of a young blind woman in post-revolutionary France (1825) / Thérèse-Adèle Husson. Refuge : an unnatural history of family and place (1991) / Terry Tempest Williams. Reversals : a personal account of victory over dyslexia (1979) / Eileen Simpson. The ride together : a brother and sister's memoir of austism in the family (2003) / Judy Karasik and Paul Karasik. The secret life of a black aspie : a memoir (2017) / Anand Prahlad. Self-consciousness : memoirs (1989) / John Updike. Seven wheelchairs : a life beyond polio (2008) / Gary Presley. Shadow and sunshine (1906) / Eliza Suggs. The shaking woman, or, A history of my nerves (2010) / Siri Hustvedt. The short bus : a journey beyond normal (2007) / Jonathan Mooney. Sick : a memoir (2018) / Porochista Kahkpour. Sight unseen (1999) / Georgina Kleege. Smalls acts of disappearance : essays on hunger (2015) / Fiona Wright. A smell of burning : the story of epilepsy (2016) / Colin Grant. The social meaning of mental retardation : two life stories (1982) / Robert Bogdan and Steven J. Taylor. Songs of the gorilla nation : my journey through autism (2004) / Dawn Prince-Hughes. Sounds like home : growing up black and deaf in the south (1999) / Mary Herring Wright. The spiral cage : diary of an astral gypsy (1988) / Al Davison. Squint : my journey with leprosy (2009) / José P. Ramirez, Jr. Still me (1998) / Christopher Reeve. The story of my father : a memoir (2003) / Sue Miller. The story of my life (1903) / Helen Keller. Stuttering : a life bound up in words (1997) / Marty Jezer. Sweet invisible body : reflections on life with diabetes (1999) / Lisa Roney. Taking heart (1990) / A.C. Greene. Teach us to sit still : a skeptic's serach for health and healing (2010) / Tim Parks. Tell me the number before infinity : the story of a girl with a quirky mind, an eccentric family, and oh yes, a disability (2016) / Becky Taylor and Dena Taylor. Too late to die young : nearly true tales from a life (2005) / Harriet McBryde Johnson. Touching the rock : an experience of blindness (1990) / John M. Hull. Truly blessed (1998) / Teddy Pendergrass and Patricia Romanowski. Twitch and shout : a touretter's tale (1998) / Lowell Handler. The two-in-one : walking with Smokie, walking with blindness (1999) / Rod Michalko. Ugly : my memoir (2013) / Robert Hoge. Under the eye of the clock : the life story of Christopher Nolan (1987) / Christopher Nolan. The unheard : a memoir of deafness and Africa (2007) / Josh Swiller. An unquiet mind : a memoir of moods and madness (1995) / Kay Redfield Jamison. Unspeakable : the story of Junius Wilson (2007) / Susan Burch and Hannah Joyner. Until further notice, I am alive (2012) / Tom Lubbock. Victory in my hands (1949) / Harold Russell, with Victor Rosen. Waist-high in the world : a life among the nondisabled (1996) / Nancy Mairs. Waking : a memoir of trauma and transcendence (2006) / Matthew Sanford. Wasted : a memoir of anorexia and bulimia (1998) / Marya Hornbacher. What her body thought : a journey into the shadows (1999) / Susan Griffin. What's that pig outdoors? A memoir of deafness (1990) / Henry Kisor. Wheelchair warrior : gangs, disability, and basketball (2008) / Melvin Juette and Ronald J. Berger. White on black (2002) / Ruben Gallego. A whole new life : an illness and a healing (1994) / Reynolds Price. Wide awake : a memoir of insomnia (2010) / Patricia Morrisroe. Willow weep for me : a black woman's journey through depression (1998) / Meri Nana-Ama Danquah. The wounded breast : intimate journeys through cancer (2000) / Evelyne Accad.