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Samuel Johnson prize 2015

November 2015

  • Steve Silberman, whose book Neurotribes has won the 2015 Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction.

    Steve Silberman on winning the Samuel Johnson prize: 'I was broke, broke, broke'

    His first book was about the Grateful Dead. His second, about autism, has just taken the Samuel Johnson prize. Meet neuro-warrior Steve Silberman, friend of Allen Ginsberg and ‘gay coach’ to Oliver Sacks
  • Samuel Johnson Prize-winner Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism and How to Think Smarter About People Who Think Differently by Steve Silberman.

    Steve Silberman's Neurotribes is the book 'families affected by autism have long deserved'

    The winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction is optimistic about how the world can become a better place for autism
  • Steve Silberman and Leo Rosa, 14, who has autism and likes to calm himself with green straws from Starbucks.

    'Hopeful' study of autism wins Samuel Johnson prize 2015

    Neurotribes by Steve Silberman takes £20,000 award for book ‘arguing that we should stop drawing sharp lines between normal and abnormal’
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