Dawn prince hughes biography template
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The period just prior to the birth of a child is a time of profound personal transformation for expectant parents. Expecting Teryk: An Exceptional Path to Parenthood is an intimate exploration, written in the form of a letter from a parent to her future son, that reclaims a rite of passage that modern society would strip of its magic.
Dawn Prince-Hughes, renowned author of Songs of the Gorilla Nation: My Journey through Autism, considers the ways being autistic might inform her
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Prince-Hughes, Dawn 1964-
PERSONAL: Born 1964; daughter of Ron (a heating and air-conditioning serviceman) and Joyce (a homemaker) Prince; companion to Tara Hughes (an English professor); children: one son. Education: Earned Ph.D. (anthropology).
ADDRESSES: Offıce—Western Washington University, 516 High St., Bellingham, WA 98225-9009.
CAREER: Western Washington University, Bellingham, adjunct professor of anthropology. Previously worked as part-time researcher at Woodland Park Zoo, Seattle, WA. Has also worked as an exotic dancer.
WRITINGS:
Gorillas among Us: A Primate Ethnographer's Book of Days, University of Arizona Press (Tucson, AZ), 2001.
(Author and compiler) Aquamarine Blue 5: PersonalStories of College Students with Autism, Swallow Press/Ohio University Press (Athens, OH), 2002.
Songs of the Gorilla Nation: My Journey throughAutism, Harmony Books (New York, NY), 2004.
SIDELIGHTS: Dawn Prince-Hughes is a high-school dropout who overcame adver
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