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In 2022, Woody Brown became the first nonspeaking autistic graduate of UCLA, where he received the English department's top writing honours. Brown completed his MFA in creative writing at Columbia University in 2024. He lives in Los Angeles.
Implosive and wonderfully inspirational. Upward Bound is acutely aware that be it indigo, autism, social class, or the gamma ray, everything and everyone is on the spectrum -- PAUL BEATTY, Booker Prize winner of The Sellout Upward Bound gives us the world from the perspective of someone rarely noticed or understood . . . Wondrous and distinctly brilliant -- RIVKA GALCHEN, author of Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch [A] groundbreaking debut novelist * Publishers Weekly * Woody Brown accomplishes the seemingly impossible; he gives voice to a character with a sensibility both intelligent, ironic and loveable, who cannot himself speak -- MONA SIMPSON, author of Anywhere but Here
