Roy Richard Grinker

Grinker has published a number of books on multiple topics - Africa, Korea, and autism. • Houses in the Rainforest: Ethnicity and Inequality among Farmers and Foragers in Northeastern Zaire (, University of California Press, 1994) • (with Christopher B. Steiner) Perspectives on Africa: A Reader in Culture, History and Representation (, Blackwell Publishers, 1997) • Korea and its Futures: Unification and the Unfinished War (, St. Martin's Press, 1998) • In the Arms of Africa: The Life of Colin Turnbull (, University of Chicago Press, 2000) • Unstrange Minds: Remapping the World of Autism (, Basic Books, 2007) • Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness (, Norton, 2021) ==Personal life==

Grinker was born and raised in Chicago. He graduated from Choate Rosemary Hall in 1979, Grinnell College in 1983, and received his Ph.D. in Social Anthropology at Harvard University in 1989. His paternal grandfather, Roy R. Grinker, Sr. founded the Psychiatry Department at the University of Chicago and was the founding editor of the Archives of General Psychiatry. His book on autism, Unstrange Minds, was in part an "attempt to make sense of an intensely personal issue: his own daughter's autism". ==References==