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'Quizmaster Reflects On 50 Years Of 'It's Academic' '. Both works were co-authored with Caren Zucker. As a writer, he was a named finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in general non-fiction for 'In A Different Key: The Story of Autism,' and also a finalist for the 2011 National Magazine Award for his profile of Donald Triplett. Awards ĭonvan's broadcast work has won four Emmy Awards, several Overseas Press Club Awards, two Cine Golden Eagles, and has been honored by the National Association of Black Journalists, the Committee of 100, and the Media Action Network for Asian-Americans. The book discusses the debate over the neurodiversity movement, especially with respect to low-functioning autistics. Another person profiled is psychiatrist and autism pioneer Leo Kanner. One autistic individual covered is Donald Triplett, the first child diagnosed with autism. Issues discussed include the Refrigerator mother theory and the possibility of an autism epidemic. In 2016, Donvan and Caren Zucker, a journalist and television news producer, co-authored In a Different Key: The Story of Autism.

Įarlier, he worked as a reporter for ABC News, including stints as Moscow and London correspondent and becoming the network's chief White House correspondent in January 1997 and a regular contributor to Nightline in 1998. in September 2013, under the auspices of SpeakeasyDC. He attended Dartmouth and Columbia University Journalism Career ĭonvan is the host of Intelligence Squared US, a forum that gathers experts to debate propositions concerning serious topics of public interest in Oxford Union-style debates which may be heard on NPR, and on Fora.TV.ĭonvan is an avid storyteller, having premiered his first one-man show 'Lose the Kid' in Washington, D.C. He serves as host of Intelligence Squared U.S., a debate series dedicated to raising the level of public discourse in America.ĭonvan attended Regis High School in New York City. John Donvan (born 1955) is a journalist, broadcaster and debate moderator whose bestselling book, In a Different Key: The Story of Autism, was a Pulitzer Prize Finalist.

In a Different Key by John Donvan