About the Author

Lawrence Aguirre was born in 1933 in East Los Angeles. He lost his sight when he was twelve years old in a car accident and was sent to the California School for the Blind in Berkeley. He has often said that if he hadn't lost his sight, he would have never escaped the barrio. At the School for the Blind, he learned the fundamentals of being blind in the sighted world. He also learned to wrestle well enough to win four state championships. Later he attended the University of California at Los Angeles, majoring in history and philosophy. After graduating he married and moved to Venice, California. He and his wife decided that she would pursue her career as a teacher and he would stay home and raise their daughter and write. Blind Chance is Lawrence's first novel. However, now that there are so many avenues for publishing, he is planning to make some of his earlier works available. Today at age 80, he lives in Santa Cruz, California, and continues to write.