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British novelist and activist Erin Pizzey is famous for starting the first ever women's refuge in the modern world. And she describes herself jokingly as "hopelessly dyslexic"! She was born in China where her family were British diplomats. In World War II they were...

You may not know Marc Jordan by name, but I bet you know him by song. He's written hit tracks for Rod Stewart, Diana Ross, Cher, and others, and is still composing and touring today. And he has severe dyslexia. He struggled to show his natural intelligence as a child...

Brian Conley was once the highest paid male television performers in the United Kingdom. He's famous for playing PT Barnum in Barnum Circus' The Greatest Show on Earth, and has been on the West End stage more recently in Hairspray, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and Oliver!...

Chuck Close is an artist famed for his massive, photo-like portraits of faces. He has dyslexia, and even more interesting given his career, also has a form of face-blindness which makes it difficult for him to recognize people. He struggled with all areas of school...

Charlie Burgin is an electronica music creator from California who goes by the cryptic name Sahy Uhns. Nobody can pronounce it... and Burgin gets a kick out of that because he is dyslexic. “I’m severely dyslexic,” Burgin confesses...So one of his goals in choosing the...

This is a first for our Famous Dyslexics series on the Easyread blog... we are featuring a champion fencer! Molly Sliney fenced for the US Olympic Team in two Olympic games, and won gold at the 1987 and 1991 Pan American Games. Molly Sliney struggled to read from an...

Actor, singer, and activist Harry Belafonte has become an advocate for children with reading difficulties in recent years. Belafonte was born in New York in the late 1920s. He spend part of his early childhood in Jamaica before returning to the US in his teenage...