Portia Iversen

About The Author

Portia Iversen, an Emmy-winning art director (for The Tracey Ullman Show), has been a vigorous proponent of autism research since her son Dov was diagnosed with the condition in 1994. Together with her husband, Jon Shestack, she established the Cure Autism Now Foundation (CAN), one of the largest nongovernmental funding resources for autism research worldwide. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and their three children.

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Books by Portia Iversen

Strange Son

Two Mothers, Two Sons, and the Quest to Unlock the Hidden World of Autism

By Portia Iversen

Read by Jane Kaczmarek

The uplifting true story of two mothers from opposite sides of the world united to help their sons.

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