Clint Smith is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, the Hillman Prize for Book Journalism, the Stowe Prize, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and selected by The New York Times as one of the 10 Best Books of 2021. He is also the author of two books of poetry, The New York Times bestselling collection Above Ground as well as Counting Descent.

Conversation Topic: 'The Way I See It: A Personal Look at Autism and Asperger's'

Dr. Grandin, who didn't speak until she was three and a half, was fortunate to receive early speech therapy, learn social skills like turn-taking in board games, and be mainstreamed into kindergarten at five. Her first book, Emergence: Labeled Autistic, offered a unique first-person view of autism. In his best-selling Anthropologist on Mars, Oliver Sacks wrote that Grandin's book was unprecedented because there had never been an inside narrative of autism.