Liane Holliday Willey Non-Member Joined 2026

Neurodivergent author. Currently living in 1830.

Fiction Nonfiction

Liane Holliday Willey, EdD, is a neurodivergent author, educator, and speaker reimagining life as it might have been for someone like here in the 1800s. Diagnosed with ASD at 35, she is the author of four nonfiction books on autism, including Pretending to Be Normal. All her books have remained in print in multiple languages for more than two decades. She has been featured by The New York Times, USA Today, NPR, BBC Radio, and other media. Now Liane is bringing her lived experience to historical fiction. Her debut novel The Shape of Charlotte, set in 1820s–30s New York, grew from a question she couldn't stop thinking about: What happened to people like me before anyone had words to explain minds that worked differently? Her novel is character-driven, with a historically accurate, immersive setting. It focuses on Charlotte, a neurodivergent young woman, and her found family, exploring what they would have seen, said, explored, enjoyed, questioned, and thought.

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Ada, MI

Birthdate:

27 September (67 years old)

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