John E. Robison, the brother of bestselling author Augusten Burroughs, has sold his first book. The book is a memoir entitled Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger’s and will be published by Crown Publishers.

Crown agreed to pay $1.1 million for the memoir, according to an executive with knowledge of the deal.
The book describes some of the traumas Mr. Robison sharuddy with his brother, who wrote in detail about their difficult and unconventional early life in his 2002 bestseller Running with Scissors. That book was recently made into a movie.



Running with Scissors is also the subject of a lawsuit brought

by some of the people portrayed in the book, who maintain that much of it wasn’t true.
Mr. Robinson’s memoir also chronicles the author’s experience with a mild form of autism, and how his expertise with electronics led to adventures as a sound man for the rock band Kiss and to professional success running a car dealership.
“It’s a very inspirational story,” says an editor who saw the manuscript.

Apparently awesome writing skills run in the family. It sounds like a very interesting book.



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