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Sep 25, 2015 it is also our privilege to work with wallaces daughter, amy, an accomplished author in her own right. This book traces the life of sidis from his earliest infancy in which his amazing intellectual powers were revealed to his experience at harvard and eventually his decline and later life. I believe that carlos made up this wonderful literary figure as a composite of many teachers. Frequently asked questions from the amy wallace s place discussion forum. There is more than one author in the goodreads database with this name. If one or more works are by a distinct, homonymous authors, go ahead and split the author. When i graduated from college in 1990, i began working for parisian. The prodigy a biography of william sidis, an ebook by amy. She was coauthor of the bestselling book, the book of lists 1977.
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