Writers on the Spectrum ─ How Autism and Asperger Syndrome Have Influenced Literary Writing

Brown serves as an academic advisor for autistic individuals at Clatsop Community College in Astoria, Oregon, and teaches a course she developed on autism in literature. Here, she identifies well-known authors whose work and lives display characteristics of autistic spectrum disorder (ASD), including Hans Christian Andersen, Emily Dickinson, Lewis Carroll, and Sherwood Anderson. She also provides an overview of ASD, and an introduction on how ASD affects writers in general, and college writing students in particular. The book's readership includes general readers and professionals with an interest in literature or the autistic mind. Annotation c2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Julie Brown has been a professor of writing and literature for over 20 years. Her first two books of literary criticism, American Women Short Story Writers and Ethnicity and The American Short Story, explore the works of culturally marginalized writers. Her current research project investigates the link between autism and creative writing. Julie's son has Asperger's Syndrome and she is involved as a volunteer in the autistic community. Julie serves as an academic advisor for autistic individuals at Clatsop Community College in Astoria, Oregon and she also teaches a course she developed on autism in literature. She lives in Astoria.