Neurotribes by Steve Silberman takes £20000 award for book ‘arguing that we should stop drawing sharp lines between normal and abnormal’Steve Silberman’s investigation into autism,Neurotribes, has become the first popular science book to win the Samuel Johnson prize, and praised by judges of the prestigious non-fiction award for “inject[ing] a hopeful note into a conversation that’s normally dominated by despair”.
Working for Wired magazine,Silberman first began to explore into the topic when he discovered that two Silicon Valley entrepreneurs he had interviewed had autistic children. Telling a friend approximately “this curious synchronicity” in a cafe, a special-education teacher at the next table overheard, or informed him: “There is an epidemic of autism in Silicon Valley. Something terrible is happening to our children.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com