Hi Anna
I am somewhat unclear as to whether you are asking about the
publishers of existing (auto)biographies of disabled activists, or
about publishers that might be interested in publishing a
not-yet-published biography? (The replies you have had so far suggest
the former, but to me your email reads more like the latter...)
I have 3 published autobiographies of disabled activists to hand right
now - Connie Panzarino's 'The Me in the Mirror' (published by Seal
Press in 1994), Harriet McBryde Johnson's 'Too Late to Die Young'
(published by Henry Holt and Company in 2005) and Penny Pepper's
'First in the World Somewhere' - the latter, which came out recently,
is an interesting example because it was published through Unbound, a
print-on-demand platform that works similarly to Kickstarter and other
crowdfunding websites: www.unbound.com . There are a few other
disability-related books in the process of being published on Unbound
including a book of short biographies of 'high-achieving' people with
learning difficulties.
If there is a biography of a disabled activist looking for a
publisher, it strikes me that this is the sort of thing that the
Disability Press here at Leeds could possibly do.
Steve
On 29/10/2017, Anna Lawson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I've been asked, on a number of occasions, for advice about which
> publishers to approach for biographies of leading figures in struggles for
> disability rights. Does anybody have any suggestions?
>
> Many thanks and all best
> Anna
>
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