Hidden Valley Road

The heartrending story of a midcentury American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science's great hope in the quest to understand the disease.

ROBERT KOLKER is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Valley Road, which was an Oprah's book club pick and was named a top book of literary journalism in the 21st century by GQ and a top nonfiction book of the century by Kirkus Reviews. Kolker is also the author of bestselling book Lost Girls, named one of the New York Times's 100 Notable Books and one of Publishers Weekly's Top Ten Books of 2013. He is a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine. He is a National Magazine Award finalist and a recipient of the 2011 Harry Frank Guggenheim Award for Excellence in Criminal Justice Reporting from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York.