Diana Wynne Jones is one of my favorite authors of fantasy (reviews here and here).
I did not know until today that she is dyslexic.
"It's awfully hard to describe, but when I was eight, in the middle of an afternoon, I suddenly knew I was going to be a writer," she says. "I was in the throes of dyslexia, and being left-handed didn't help, so it did seem like the most improbable thing in the world. I went downstairs and told my parents, who laughed, but I was right. And it does keep you going through lots of disappointments - it took me a long time to get published, too."
I wonder how Jones managed to get from dyslexic to author. I haven't been able to find anything on how she learned to read. Her fantasy novels feature several dyslexic characters--my favorite being Grundo from The Merlin Conspiracy.
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