“They were just geeks,” he said, and had no more clinical label applied to them. Simsion said he’d been around a lot of guys like Don as he’d joined the radio club and studied physics in school. Simsion, who resides with his wife in Australia, said his colleagues from his former career in information technology inspired the idea for “The Rosie Project.” One co-worker in particular had a “wife project” the same way Simsion’s main character, Don Tillman, does - he had a long questionnaire for prospective women, attended lots of singles events, and was deliberate about meeting somebody.īut, as far as Simsion knows, this co-worker was never diagnosed as autistic. Simsion will visit The King's English book shop in Salt Lake on Wednesday. More than a decade later, he’s coming out with the third book in the series, “ The Rosie Result” (Text Publishing, 384 pages), with a story that centers around autism. SALT LAKE CITY - When author Graeme Simsion first sat down to write his future bestseller “ The Rosie Project,” he had no intention of writing an autistic main character.
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