Amy Wallace (1955–2013)
Auteur de Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
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Œuvres de Amy Wallace
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration (2014) 1,688 exemplaires
The Prodigy: A Biography of William James Sidis, America's Greatest Child Prodigy (1600) 61 exemplaires
The book of lists: the original compendium of curious information (Canadian edition) (2005) 38 exemplaires
Healing Promises (Defenders of Hope Series #2) 2 exemplaires
Anleitung zum geistigen Heilen. 1 exemplaire
Ransomed Dreams (Defenders of Hope Series #1) 1 exemplaire
Closing Time 1 exemplaire
The Gardeners 1 exemplaire
Enduring Justice (Defenders of Hope Series #3) 1 exemplaire
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- Nom légal
- Wallace, Amy Deborah
- Autres noms
- Finnegan, Ellis Laura
- Date de naissance
- 1955-07-3
- Date de décès
- 2013-08-10
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Professions
- writer
- Relations
- Wallace, Irving (father)
Wallace, Sylvia (mother)
Wallechinsky, David (brother)
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- Œuvres
- 28
- Aussi par
- 2
- Membres
- 4,701
- Popularité
- #5,365
- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
- 109
- ISBN
- 141
- Langues
- 12
- Favoris
- 2
So, how is the book. It is a chronological and sometimes thematical narrative biography of William James Sidis, a child prodigy, son of Boris Sidis, a pioneering psychologist, and Sarah Sidis, a stern mother with an unused M.D. (gotten at a time when few women even attended college), and godson of the august scholar William James. Sidis had prodigous memory skills, learned languages easily, read voraciously and precociously, and, most notedly, had tremendous mathematical skills. He graduated Harvard as a teen, lectured on the fourth dimension, and even published an obscure book on cosmological physics. And, by age twenty or so, did nothing with it. He disdained academia, he hated his mother, he never mentioned his father. He retreated into menial jobs as a comptometer operator, devolved into socialistic and anarchistic politics, lived cheek by jowl, wrote drivelous history, and, most famously, or infamously, collected and wrote about street car transfer ticket collecting (inventing a hobby and study he coined “peridromophily”). Shunning his childhood publicity and a conscientious objector, he died young and mostly alone at the tail end of the Second World War. It’s a sad but engrossing tale. As a “gifted” kid myself, I understand some of his hobbies and self-world. But his total retreat from manners, society, and the like I find inexplicable.
Nice images (more on Mahony’s site), index, but no notes or bibliography (again, the late Mahony has a sort of bibliography on his link-deathing website). Good, interesting, but could be so much better. The thrust of Wallace, and Mahony, is that the prodigy didn’t burn out and destroy his gifts, he just channelled them into unexplainable anti-social pursuits. Creeping under the surface is a non-condemnation condemnation of his odd upbringing; that Sidis’s parents raised a damaged prodigy. Let the reader decide.… (plus d'informations)