Books by Steve Silberman
Steve Silberman is an award-winning science writer whose articles have appeared in Wired, the New Yorker, Nature, Salon and many other publications. He is the author of NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity, which won the 2015 Baillie Gifford (formerly the Samuel Johnson) prize for non-fiction. His TED talk “The Forgotten History of Autism” has been viewed more than a million times. He lives with his husband Keith in San Francisco.
“Steve’s book reads like a novel. He’s a science writer but he tells wonderful stories…Read this book if you want to get a sense, from the socio-cultural and also from the historical diagnostic perspective, of how this concept of autism developed, and how the concept of autism has changed over the years, and if there really is an autism epidemic. Steve believes that there is not. Steve believes that we are just recognising people with autism and the category has expanded so greatly that that can account for the numbers we’re seeing today that we’ve never seen before of diagnosed people. It’s a wonderful book…It’s considered to be a game-changing book in terms of our understanding of autism.” Read more...
Barry Prizant, Medical Scientist
Interviews with Steve Silberman
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Nerdy, Shy, and Socially Inappropriate: A User Guide to an Asperger Life
by Cynthia Kim -
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The Real Experts: Readings for Parents of Autistic Children
by Michelle Sutton (editor) -
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Uniquely Human: A Different Way of Seeing Autism
by Barry Prizant and Tom Fields-Meyer -
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Autism Adulthood: Strategies and Insights for a Fulfilling Life
by Susan Senator -
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The Eagle Tree
by Ned Hayes
The Best Autism Books, recommended by Steve Silberman
The Best Autism Books, recommended by Steve Silberman
Writing about autism has undergone an important shift, finally giving a voice to people with autism, says Steve Silberman, the winner of the 2015 Baillie Gifford Prize for his book tracing the history of autism, Neurotribes. He picks five recent books on autism.
Interviews where books by Steve Silberman were recommended
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Question 7
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Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World
by John Vaillant -
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Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
by Katherine Rundell -
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Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
by Patrick Radden Keefe -
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One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time
by Craig Brown -
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The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
by Hallie Rubenhold
Baillie Gifford Prize-Winning Nonfiction Books
Baillie Gifford Prize-Winning Nonfiction Books
It's a prize that has been awarded annually since 1999 to a book that speaks to an important issue but is also highly readable. Below you'll find all the winners of the Baillie Gifford Prize, the UK's most prestigious non-fiction book award—from a gripping account of a turning point in World War II to a terrifying forest fire in an oil town in Canada.
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Following Ezra
by Tom Fields-Meyer -
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Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism and How to Think Smarter About People Who Think Differently
by Steve Silberman -
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Seven Keys to Unlock Autism
by Elaine Hall -
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Understanding Autism for Dummies
by Stephen Shore and Linda Rastelli -
5
Asperger's from the Inside Out
by Michael John Carley
The best books on Autism, recommended by Barry Prizant
The best books on Autism, recommended by Barry Prizant
The award-winning clinical scholar and author of Uniquely Human, Barry Prizant, chooses his top five books on autism.