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Robert Kolker

Biography

Robert Kolker

Robert Kolker is a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine and the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller HIDDEN VALLEY ROAD, named an Oprah’s Book Club pick, a New York Times Book Review Top 10 book of the year, a GQ Best Book of Literary Journalism of the 21st Century, and a Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Century. His first book was LOST GIRLS, named a New York Times Notable Book and a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2013. His latest book is THE VANISHING FAMILY: Love, Fate, and the Quest to End Dementia.

Robert Kolker

Books by Robert Kolker

by Robert Kolker - Biography, Nonfiction, Science

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of HIDDEN VALLEY ROAD comes the heart-wrenching journey of a family facing an unthinkable destiny, whose flawed genetic code might hold the long-sought key to a cure for dementia.

by Robert Kolker - Biography, Nonfiction, Science

HIDDEN VALLEY ROAD is the heartrending story of a mid-century American family with 12 children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science's great hope in the quest to understand the disease.