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"In this intelligent and humane book, Rosemary Mahoney writes of people who are blind....She reports on their courage and gives voice, time and again, to their miraculous dignity."--Andrew Solomon, author of Far From the Tree"This joyful, thoughtful book took me on an emotional journey and introduced me to people I'll never forget. With her wonderfully sharp prose and great sense of humor and humanity, Rosemary Mahoney has written a riveting narrative that combines world-class reporting, science, history, and travel writing. For The Benefit of Those Who See has changed forever the way I view my senses, and made me aware of how I do and don't experience the world." -- Will Schwalbe, author of The End of Your Life Book Club"Rosemary Mahoney is one of a handful of nonfiction writers so original and so surprising that I look forward to each new book with an excitement bordering on impatience.
About the Author
Rosemary Mahoney was educated at Harvard College and Johns Hopkins University and has been awarded numerous awards for her writing, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Writers Award, a nomination for the National Book Critics' Circle Award, a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Transatlantic Review Award for Fiction, and Harvard's Charles E. Horman Prize for writing. Mahoney is the author of six books of non-fiction: For the Benefit of Those Who See; Dispatches from the World of the Blind, Down the Nile; Alone in a Fisherman's Skiff, A Likely Story: One Summer with Lillian Hellman, The Singular Pilgrim: Travels on Sacred Ground, Whoredom in Kimmage: The World of Irish Women, and The Early Arrival of Dreams; A Year in China. She has written for numerous publications, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The London Observer, The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post Book World, The New York Times Book Review, Elle, National Geographic Traveler, O, the Oprah Magazine, and many others. She is a citizen of Ireland and the United States and lives in Athens, Greece.