[stylist] What you experience verses What you read?

[John Lee Clark]

Helene:

Allow me to correct you.  There are plenty of deafblind characters in
fiction--over seventy novels.  Some authors have done an incredible help,
and the best ones actually interviewed and got to know deafblind people
first before writing their novels.  One is even the daughter of a deafblind
mother.  

And there are plenty in fantasy.  Have you ever read Catherine Asaro's
novella Moonglow?  Or John Varley'[s The Persistence of Vision?  Or that
trilogy by John Marco, with the deafblind girl as talisman?  

The best psychological portrayal is probably by Joanne Greenberg in her
novel Of Such Small Differences.  She depended heavily on Robert J.
Smithdas, a well known deafblind man, and uses what she learned to good
effect.

John

 

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