Savarese, Ralph James

Ralph James Savarese teaches American literature, disability studies, and creative writing at Grinnell College. He is the author of "Reasonable People: A Memoir of Autism and Adoption", which "Newsweek" called a "real-life love story and a passionate manifesto for the rights of people with neurological disabilities," and the winner of the Herman Melville Society's Hennig Cohen Prize for an "Outstanding Contribution to Melville Scholarship."