The Penguin Speakers Bureau

Cammie McGovern’s second novel, EYE CONTACT, is a riveting, literary mystery about a nine-year-old autistic boy who witnesses a murder. In this poignant and suspenseful book, Cammie brings her own experience as the mother of an autistic child to articulate the struggles—and the victories—that consume the lives of parents raising children with special needs. The film rights to EYE CONTACT have been optioned by Julia Roberts.

Cammie has written extensively about parenting a child with autism and the issues facing families coping with this epidemic disorder in the New York Times, Good Housekeeping, Reader’s Digest, the London Sunday Times, and others. She is also a co-founder of Whole Children, a pioneering center in Western Massachusetts established by a group of mothers of children with special needs to run after-school classes and recreation programs for children of all abilities. In the three years since it’s inception they have served over four hundred families and become a model for other centers around the country.

Cammie is also the author of THE ART OF SEEING, was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, and received the Nelson Algren Award in short fiction. Her work has been published in Redbook, Seventeen, Glimmer Train, TriQuarterly, and other publications.

She lives with her husband and three children, the oldest of whom is autistic, in Amherst, Massachusetts.

Visit Cammie’s website at www.cammiemcgovern.com.