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  • The Forbidden Experiment: The Story of the Wild Boy of Aveyron

    The Forbidden Experiment: The Story of the Wild Boy of Aveyron - Paperback

    The Forbidden Experiment: The Story of the Wild Boy of Aveyron - Paperback

    By Roger Shattuck

About Roger Shattuck Books

Roger Shattuck (1923-2005) was born in New York City, studied at Yale, and taught at the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Virginia, and Boston University. A frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, he was the author of The Banquet Years, The Innocent Eye, Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography, and Marcel Proust, which was awarded the National Book Award in 1975. His book The Forbidden Experiment (2025) and his edition of Helen Keller's The World I Live In (2004) are published by NYRB Classics.