Ryan Knighton
Encyclopedia
Ryan Knighton is a Canadian
writer
best known for being a blind author of books dealing with life and living life with blindness
, such as Cockeyed: A Memoir and C'mon Papa - Dispatches from a dad in the dark. He teaches English
and creative writing
at a university and lives in Vancouver
with his wife and daughter. Although he has other published works (Swing in the Hollow and Cars) his books about blindness have struck a chord with multitudes of peoples with varying disabilities
and have recently become popular reads at many different types of casual friend circle book club
s. A uniqueness to his work is his defining his disability as central to his life and his life's path, while simultaneously rejecting that blindness as a disability is necessarily a cultural club or the fact that blind or visually impaired
people have anything more in common than their disability.
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
writer
Writer
A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....
best known for being a blind author of books dealing with life and living life with blindness
Blindness
Blindness is the condition of lacking visual perception due to physiological or neurological factors.Various scales have been developed to describe the extent of vision loss and define blindness...
, such as Cockeyed: A Memoir and C'mon Papa - Dispatches from a dad in the dark. He teaches English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
and creative writing
Creative writing
Creative writing is considered to be any writing, fiction, poetry, or non-fiction, that goes outside the bounds of normal professional, journalistic, academic, and technical forms of literature. Works which fall into this category include novels, epics, short stories, and poems...
at a university and lives in Vancouver
Vancouver
Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...
with his wife and daughter. Although he has other published works (Swing in the Hollow and Cars) his books about blindness have struck a chord with multitudes of peoples with varying disabilities
Disability
A disability may be physical, cognitive, mental, sensory, emotional, developmental or some combination of these.Many people would rather be referred to as a person with a disability instead of handicapped...
and have recently become popular reads at many different types of casual friend circle book club
Book club
A book discussion club is a group of people who meet to discuss a book or books that they have read and express their opinions, likes, dislikes, etc. It is more often called simply a book club, a term that is also used to describe a book sales club, which can cause confusion...
s. A uniqueness to his work is his defining his disability as central to his life and his life's path, while simultaneously rejecting that blindness as a disability is necessarily a cultural club or the fact that blind or visually impaired
Visual impairment
Visual impairment is vision loss to such a degree as to qualify as an additional support need through a significant limitation of visual capability resulting from either disease, trauma, or congenital or degenerative conditions that cannot be corrected by conventional means, such as refractive...
people have anything more in common than their disability.