Publisher's Synopsis
Intimate Look at Hot Topic of Education, Privilege, and Disability: Between Nice White Parents, My Year in Mensa,and the recent Atlantic cover story titled: The Ones We Sent Away, A MEASURE OF INTELLIGENCE engages with ongoing debate around education, privilege, disability, and
Literary Treatment: Pepper brings an elegant, meditative style to this complex topic to craft a moving personal narrative. A MEASURE OF INTELLIGENCE is sure to garner review attention and connect with readers who are looking to grapple with big, thought-provoking topics.
Expert Author: Pepper has published op-eds in the New York Times, The Atlantic, Slate, and Ploughshares with more to come. She's been working hard to position herself as an expert and a talking head on the topic of disability and intelligence testing.
Well Connected Author: Pepper has strong ties in the literary community, with connections to Eula Biss, Andrew Solomon, and Viet Than Nguyen. We intend to utilize her network for blurbs, which will speak directly to the literary reader she will connect with best.
Historical Figures: The dark history of the IQ test takes readers across many years and disciplines of world history. Pepper studies the work and impact of people such as Charles Darwin, Henry H. Goddard, Alfred Binet, Robert Yerks, the man who repurposed the IQ test as the military entrance exam in 1917 which later grew into the SAT, and anthropologist Frank Boas, who took his version of the IQ test to the 1892 World's Fair to test fair goers against the intelligence that of the native people who were horrifically put on display.
