No one delivers stories that shape our times like Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author and filmmaker Ron Suskind. NPR calls him “a master storyteller with the lyricism of a poet.” The fact that he is both – an indefatigable investigator and lyrical narrator – is what makes Mr. Suskind so stunningly unique; and makes his works, in print (The One Percent Doctrine, Confidence Men, and many others) and in movies (Don’t Look Up – Netflix most watched movie ever), among the era’s most consequential and deeply affecting.
Mr. Suskind has been doing this for three decades, with prize-winning stories, books, and films that have shaped the nation’s views about the power of neurodiversity (Life, Animated, about his son and autism, followed by his 2018 Emmy Award-winning, Academy Award-nominated film). The film has changed the way the differently abled are seen across the world.
He has received numerous honorary doctorates, taught at Harvard, as the Senior Fellow for Ethics, Dartmouth College and Harvard Law School, where he created the class, Public Narrative and Justice. He holds five patents for digital engagement technologies, created a suite of apps, called Sidekicks, and invented a therapeutic model for treating autism, “Affinity Therapy,” that allows therapists to harness a patient’s deep interests to augment learning and emotional health.
He frequently appears on network and cable television, and is a regular contributor to the Rachel Maddow Show and to PBS’s NewsHour with Judy Woodruff.
