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Extraordinary Minds: Portraits of Exceptional Individuals and an Examination of Our Extraordinariness
Author(s): Howard Gardner (Author)
- Publisher: Basic Books
- Publication Date: 1 May 1997
- Language: English
- Print length: 178 pages
- ISBN-10: 0465045154
- ISBN-13: 9780465045150
Book Description
A leading psychologist takes a close-up look at what makes a human being extraordinary, drawing on the lives of four remarkable individuals–Mozart, Virginia Woolf, Freud, and Gandhi–to identify three characteristics that transform exceptional human beings.
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About the Author
Howard Gardner is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor in Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Among numerous honors, Gardner received a MacArthur Prize Fellowship in 1981. In 1990, he was the first American to receive the University of Louisville’s Grawemeyer Award in education. In 2000, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
