The heartrending story of a midcentury American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science’s great hope in the quest to understand the disease. With clarity and compassion, bestselling and award-winning author Robert Kolker uncovers one family’s unforgettable legacy of suffering, love, and hope.
On May 6, 2020, to kick off Mental Health Awareness Month, FOLCS was joined for a virtual discussion on bestselling author, Bob Kolker’s, new release, Hidden Valley Road.
Watch A Conversation with Bestselling Author, Bob Kolker here.
Robert Kolker
Author
Robert Kolker is the New York Times bestselling author of Lost Girls, named one of the New York Times’s 100 Notable Books and one of Publishers Weekly’s Top Ten Books of 2013. As a journalist, his work has appeared in New York magazine, Bloomberg Businessweek, The New York Times Magazine, Wired, GQ, O magazine, and Men’s Journal. He is a National Magazine Award finalist and a recipient of the 2011 Harry Frank Guggenheim Award for Excellence in Criminal Justice Reporting from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York.