Steve Silberman
Steve Silberman is an American writer for Wired magazine and has been an editor and contributor there for 14 years. In 2010, Silberman was awarded the AAAS "Kavli Science Journalism Award for Magazine Writing." His featured article, known as "The Placebo Problem", discussed the impact of placebos on the pharmaceutical industry.
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| Born | United States |
| Alma mater | Oberlin College, University of California, Berkeley |
| Genre | non-fiction |
| Notable work | Neurotribes |
| Notable awards | Kavli Science Journalism Award for Magazine Writing Samuel Johnson Prize |
Silberman's 2015 book Neurotribes, which discusses the autism rights and neurodiversity movements, was awarded the Samuel Johnson Prize. Additionally, Silberman's Wired article "The Geek Syndrome", 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.
Silberman's Twitter account made Time magazine's list of the best Twitter feeds for the year 2011.
In 2016, he gave the keynote address at the United Nations on World Autism Awareness Day.