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Rare Good: Essays on Art, Autism, and Astonishment

Rare Good: Essays on Art, Autism, and Astonishment

Paperback

Series: American Lives

Biographies GeneralWriting Instruction

Publisher Price: $21.95

PREORDER - Expected ship date October 1, 2026

ISBN10: 1496246268
ISBN13: 9781496246264
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: Oct 1 2026
Pages: 166
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.38 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Now I saw that I was more than who I thought I was--more than who I had been told I was. There wasn't anything the diagnosis didn't touch. In time, even how I thought about being a writer changed.

Steve Edwards was diagnosed with autism in his mid-thirties, altering his relationship to writing and family. He discovered what he had always known but never said: His compulsion to create was more than just a pursuit of self-expression. Faced with a mix of belief and disbelief from those who knew him, and full of questions himself, he committed to a new sense of wonder and pursuit of revelation.

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