Higgins also writes:

The New York Review of Books online is carrying neurologist Oliver Sacks’ introduction to Exiting Nirvana: A Daughter’s Life with Autism, Clara Claiborne Park’s 2nd book about her daughter Jessy, a person with autism who has grown up (with much help from her parents) to be a talented artist. The NYRB package online also includes several pieces of Jessy Park’s artwork.

If you have followed Sacks, you know that autism is one of his special interests. True to form, he is interested not only in the limits of a person, but also the soul and the paradoxical gains that come from having a certain illness or disorder.

To my great pleasure, I discovered that Dr. Sacks has a personal website here, with goodies such as links to artwork by people Sacks has written about and links to interviews with Sacks or feature articles about him.