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.
- James Joyce
- Helen Keller
- Wyndham Lewis
- Galileo
- James Thurber
- Sue Arnold
- Eduard Asadov
- Jorge Luis Borges
- Pedro Bucaneg
- António Feliciano de Castilho
- Francisco del Castillo Andraca
- Vicenta Castro Cambón
- Belo Cipriani
- Jack Clemo
- Ruth Dallas
- Marcello Fabbri
- John Fante
- Morris Frank
- Lars Havstad
- Maryam Heydarzadeh
- Homer
- Taha Hussein
- Isaac the Blind
- Howard Hille Johnson
- Dafydd Jones (Dewi Dywyll)
- Lachi (artist)
- Edwin Maurice Little
- Al-Maʿarri
- John Milton
- María Josefa Mujía
- Melchiorre Murenu
- Nikolai Ostrovsky
- Benito Pérez Galdós
- Gottlieb Konrad Pfeffel
- Rudaki
- Edward Rushton
- Âşık Veysel Şatıroğlu
- Alejandro Sawa
- Ibn Sidah
- Eugeniu Ștefănescu-Est
- Surdas
- Sue Townsend
- Marcel van Maele
- Anna Williams (poet)
- Peyo Yavorov