Daniel Tammet

Daniel Tammet FRSA is an English writer, essayist, translator, and autistic savant. His 2006 memoir, Born on a Blue Day, about his life with Asperger syndrome and savant syndrome, was named a Best Book for Young Adults in 2008 by the American Library Association Young Adult Library Services magazine. His second book, Embracing the Wide Sky, was one of Frances bestselling books of 2009. Thinking in Numbers, his third book, was published onAugust 2012 by Hodder amp Stoughton in the United Kingdom and onJuly 2013 by Little, Brown and Company in the United States and Canada. His books have been published inlanguages. He was elected in 2012 to serve as a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Tammet was born Daniel Paul Corney and raised in Barking, East London, England, as the eldest of nine children. He suffered epileptic seizures as a young child, which he subsequently outgrew following medical treatment.

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