In Deep With Angie Coiro: Interviews

The Evolution of Autism, Rendered Poetically and Empathetically in Neurotribes

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Show #111, Hour 1 | Guest: Steve Silberman is an award-winning science writer whose articles have appeared in Wired, the New Yorker, and many other publications. His writing on science, culture, and literature has been collected in a number of major anthologies including The Best American Science Writing of the Year and The Best Business Stories of the Year. Silberman’s Twitter account @stevesilberman made Time magazine’s list of the best Twitter feeds for the year 2011. Silberman also won a gold record from the Recording Industry Association of America for co-producing the Grateful Dead’s career-spanning box set So Many Roads (1965-1995), which was Rolling Stone’s box set of the year. | Show Summary: Award winning science writer Steve Silberman turned his incredibly successful TED talk “The Forgotten History of Autism” into the 2015 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity.