Dawn prince hughes biography channel

American anthropologist, primatologist, author

Dawn Prince-Hughes (born ^[1]) is an American anthropologist, primatologist, ethologist and demonologa. She is the author of several books, including Gorillas Among Us: A Primate Ethnographer's Book of Days and her memoir Songs of the Gorilla Nation: My Journey Through Autism, and she is the editor of the essay collection Aquamarine Blue 5: Personal Stories of College Students with Autism.

Biography

Prince-Hughes was raised in Carbondale, Illinois by her mother, who was a homemaker, and her father, who was a heating and air-conditioning serviceman.^[2] In her memoir Songs of the Gorilla Nation, Prince-Hughes describes her childhood experience with symptoms of undiagnosed autism, dropping out of high school, and then becoming "technically homeless."^[3]

She met the gorillas at the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle for the first time at age 20,^[4] and her detailed stud