Clara Claiborne Park

Clara Claiborne Park is the author of several books, including The Siege: A Family's Journey into the World of an Autistic Child, and is a prominent speaker about autism. She won the 1999 American Society of Magazine Editors Award for Feature Writing for her American Scholar article "Exiting Nirvana." She recently retired from the English Department at Williams College and lives in Williamstown, Massachusetts.

Books
	Exiting Nirvana How to begin? In bewilderment, I think - that's the truest way. That's where we began, all those years ago. That's where everyone begins who has to do with autistic children. And even now, when my daughter is past forty...