45 Authors that were Blind

Here, you will find an incomplete list of authors who were blind. While they had a visual impairment, they didn’t let that hinder their success and many, are in the American Canon.

1. James Joyce
2. Helen Keller
3. Wyndham Lewis
4. Galileo
5. James Thurber
6. Sue Arnold
7. Eduard Asadov
8. Jorge Luis Borges
9. Pedro Bucaneg
10. António Feliciano de Castilho
11. Francisco del Castillo Andraca
12. Vicenta Castro Cambón
13. Belo Cipriani
14. Jack Clemo
15. Ruth Dallas
16. Marcello Fabbri
17. John Fante
18. Morris Frank
19. Lars Havstad
20. Maryam Heydarzadeh
21. Homer
22. Taha Hussein
23. Isaac the Blind
24. Howard Hille Johnson
25. Dafydd Jones (Dewi Dywyll)
26. Lachi (artist)
27. Edwin Maurice Little
28. Al-Maʿarri
29. John Milton
30. María Josefa Mujía
31. Melchiorre Murenu
32. Nikolai Ostrovsky
33. Benito Pérez Galdós
34. Gottlieb Konrad Pfeffel
35. Rudaki
36. Edward Rushton
37. Âşık Veysel Şatıroğlu
38. Alejandro Sawa
39. Ibn Sidah
40. Eugeniu Ștefănescu-Est
41. Surdas
42. Sue Townsend
43. Marcel van Maele
44. Anna Williams (poet)
45. Peyo Yavorov