Steve Silberman

Steve Silberman
Nationality American
Alma mater Oberlin College,
University of California, Berkeley
Genre non-fiction
Notable awards Kavli Science Journalism Award for Magazine Writing
Samuel Johnson Prize

Steve Silberman is an American writer based in San Francisco, California. Silberman is best known as a writer for Wired magazine, where he has been an editor and contributor for 14 years. In 2010, Silberman was awarded the AAAS "Kavli Science Journalism Award for Magazine Writing." His featured article "The Placebo Problem"[1] discussed the impact of placebos on the pharmaceutical industry.[2]

Silberman's 2015 book, Neurotribes,[3] about autism and neurodiversity was awarded the Samuel Johnson Prize.[4][5] Silberman's Wired article "The Geek Syndrome",[6] which focused on autism in Silicon Valley, has been referenced by many sources and has been described as a culturally significant article for the autism community.[7] Silberman's Twitter account made Time magazine's list of the best Twitter feeds for the year 2011.[8]

Personal life

Silberman studied psychology at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, then received a master's degree in English literature from Berkeley, where his thesis advisor was Thom Gunn.[9]

Silberman moved to San Francisco in 1979, drawn by three factors: so that he could live "a gay life without fear";[9] because of the music of Crosby, Stills and Nash, the Grateful Dead and others;[10] and so he could be near the San Francisco Zen Center.[11]

Silberman studied with Allen Ginsberg at Naropa University in 1977. After Silberman interviewed Ginsberg for Whole Earth Review in 1987 the two became friends and Ginsberg invited Silberman to be his teaching assistant the next term at Naropa University.[12] The Beat Generation are a regular subject in Silberman's writings. Silberman lives with his husband Keith, a middle-school science teacher, to whom he has been married since 2003.[13]

Awards and honors

Selected works

Books

Essays

Reviews

Interviews

References

  1. ↑ Silberman, Steve (August 2009). "Placebos Are Getting More Effective. Drugmakers Are Desperate to Know Why". Wired. 17 (9). Retrieved 18 October 2013.
  2. ↑ "Communicating Science: A Conversation with Science Writer Steve Silberman". The Kavli Foundation. 2010. Retrieved 18 October 2013.
  3. ↑ Silberman, Steve (2015). Neurotribes, The Legacy of Autism and How to Think Smarter About People who Think Differently. Crows Nest Australia: Allen & Unwin. ISBN 978 1 76011 362 9.
  4. ↑ Anders, Charlie Jane. Why do we want autistic kids to have superpowers? io9, January 25, 2012. Accessed 10-18-2013
  5. ↑ Pan, Deanna. The Media's Post-Newtown Autism Fail, Mother Jones, December 22, 2012. Accessed 10-18-2013
  6. ↑ Silberman, Steve (December 2001). "The Geek Syndrome". Wired. 9 (12). Retrieved 18 October 2013.
  7. ↑ Shepard, Neil Patrick. Rewiring Difference and Disability: Narratives of Asperger's Syndrome in the Twenty-First Century, 2010, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Bowling Green State University, American Culture Studies/Ethnic Studies. Accessed 10-18-2013
  8. ↑ Melnick, Meredith. The 140 Best Twitter Feeds of 2011, Time, March 28, 2011. Accessed 10-18-2013
  9. 1 2 Moss, Stephen (3 November 2015). "Steve Silberman on Winning the Samuel Johnson Prize: 'I Was Broke, Broke, Broke'". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 13 November 2015.
  10. ↑ Silberman, Steve. "The Song that Changed My Life: Steve Silberman". Rexly. Retrieved 17 August 2015. I ended up buying all the music I could by Crosby and the rest of the band, particularly Crosby's luminous first solo album 'If I Could Only Remember My Name,' which featured musicians from the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane. Eventually, I would move to San Francisco in search of the elusive 'vibe' I got from that body of music; I still live there, 40 years later.
  11. ↑ Silberman, Steve (5 January 2011). "Lessons from an Old Copy of 'Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind'". Lion's Roar. Shambhala Sun Foundation.
  12. ↑ Ginsberg, Allen (September 1987). "No More Bagels: An Interview with Allen Ginsberg". Whole Earth Review (Interview).
  13. ↑ "Happily Ever After" (PDF). Lion's Roar. Shambhala Sun Foundation: 23–24. May 2009. Retrieved 23 July 2015.
  14. ↑ "The 2015 Shortlist". The Samuel Johnson Prize. 11 October 2015. Retrieved November 3, 2015.

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