About Ralph James Savarese

Ralph James Savarese is the author of Reasonable People: A Memoir of Autism and Adoption (Other Press 2007) and co-editor of Papa PhD: Essays on Fatherhood by Men in the Academy (Rutgers University Press 2010). Visit his website.

The Silver Trumpet of Freedom

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Ralph Savarese’s son, DJ, will be the first nonspeaking person with autism to live in college dorms—and the first ever to attend a school as highly selective as Oberlin.