Not Even Wrong: A Father’s Journey Into the Lost History of Autism

In Not Even Wrong, Paul Collins melds a memoir of his son’s autism with a journey into this realm of permanent outsiders. Examining forgotten geniuses and obscure medical archives, and beginning to see why he himself has spent a lifetime researching talented eccentrics, Collins shows how these stories are relevant and even necessary to shed light on autism.
Paul Collins is the author of Sixpence House and Banvard’s Folly: Thirteen Tales of People Who Didn’t Change the World. He edits the Collins Library for McSweeney’s Books and lives in Portland with his wife and son.
A Book Sense selection in hardcover.
“Brilliant.”-Vanity Fair
“Few things are more heartbreaking than learning that your child is destined to be an outsider…Collins conveys this sad truth beautifully. A fascinating portrait of his son. A”-Entertainment Weekly
“Striking…Brave man, brave book.”-Washington Post
“A genre-bending spellbinder.”-Newsday
“This is a smart, compassionate study of autists-‘the ultimate square pegs’-and how they see the world, darkly, through the thickets of their own genius.”-Publishers Weekly
Also available: Not Even Wrong hc 1-58234-367-5 $24.95 Sixpence House pb 1-58234-404-3 $13.95

• Format: Trade Paperback
• Author: Collins, Paul
• ISBN: 9781582344782
• Dimensions: 8.28 x 0.77
• Number Of Pages: 256
• Publication Year: 2005