ABOUT THE AUTHOR - ADAM FEINSTEIN

Adam Feinstein is an autism researcher and father of a 14-year-old boy with autism.

He is the editor of two autism-related websites, AutismConnect (www.autismconnect.org) and Awares (www.awares.org), as well as a monthly international autism newsletter, Looking Up (www.lookingupautism.org). He has written on autism for the Guardian. He is also the author of Pablo Neruda: A Passion for Life, the first authoritative biography of the Chilean Nobel Prize-winning poet, published in 2004 to coincide with Neruda's centenary. He has worked for the Latin American Service of the BBC and has been a London correspondent for one of Spain’s leading national daily newspapers, El Mundo.

You can e-mail the author, Adam Feinstein, on adam.m.feinstein@gmail.com