ROBERT KOLKER's book Hidden Valley Road is currently Oprah's Book Club pick and already at the top of the New York Times Best Seller's list. He's also the bestselling author of Lost Girls, now a Netflix movie and named one of the New York Times 100 Notable Books and one of Publishers Weekly's Top Ten Books of 2013. As a journalist, his work has appeared in New York magazine, Bloomberg Businessweek, The New York Times Magazine, Wired, GQ, O magazine, and Men's Journal. He is a National Magazine Award finalist and a recipient of the Guggenheim Award for Excellence in Criminal Justice Reporting.

In Robert's masterpiece, Hidden Valley Road, he takes us into the unbelievable story of a midcentury American Family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia with incredible clarity and compassion. The Galvin's have been called the most mentally ill family in America who for years were silenced by shame. The Galvins were also one of the first families to be studied by the National Institute on Mental Health back in the 80s to help us study genetics for future generations to come. I'm so thrilled Robert is here today to share this epic true family saga of how this unbelievable family became science's great hope in the quest to understand schizophrenia.

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In Robert's masterpiece, Hidden Valley Road, he takes us into the unbelievable story of a midcentury American Family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia with incredible clarity and compassion. The Galvin's have been called the most mentally ill family in America who for years were silenced by shame. The Galvin's were also one of the first families to be studied by the National Institute on Mental Health back in the 80s to help us study genetics for future generations to come. I'm so thrilled Robert is here today to share this epic true family saga of how this unbelievable family became science's great hope in the quest to understand schizophrenia.