Steve Silberman

Steve Silberman (1957–2024) was an American science journalist and author who worked as an editor and contributing writer for Wired for more than two decades. His journalism also appeared in publications including The New York Times, The New Yorker, Scientific American, and Nature. He received the 2010 Kavli Science Journalism Award for Magazine Writing.

Silberman was the author of NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity (2015), a history of autism and the neurodiversity movement. The book won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction, now known as the Baillie Gifford Prize.