About Daniel Tammet
Daniel Paul Tammet (born Daniel Paul Corney; 31 January 1979) is an English writer and savant. His memoir, Born on a Blue Day (2006), is about his early life with Asperger syndrome and savant syndrome, and was named a "Best Book for Young Adults" in 2008 by the American Library Association's Young Adult Library Services magazine. Tammet's second book, Embracing the Wide Sky, was one of France's best-selling books of 2009. His third book, Thinking in Numbers, was published in 2012 by Hodder & Stoughton in the United Kingdom and in 2013 by Little, Brown and Company in the United States and Canada. Tammet's books have been published in over 20 languages. Tammet was elected in 2012 to serve as a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Tammet was the subject of a documentary film titled Extraordinary People: The Boy with the Incredible Brain, first broadcast on Channel 4 on 23 May 2005. Tammet is a graduate of the Open University with a Bachelor of Arts degree with first-class honours in the humanities. Tammet's first novel, Mishenka, was published in France and Quebec in 2016. He and Mitchell operated the online e-learning company Optimnem, where they created and published language courses.
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