Daniel Paul Tammet (born Daniel Paul Corney; 31 January 1979) is an English writer and savant. His memoir, Born on a Blue Day (2006), is about his early life with Asperger syndrome and savant syndrome, and was named a “Best Book for Young Adults” in 2008 by the American Library Association’s Young Adult Library Services magazine. Tammet’s second book, Embracing the Wide Sky, was one of France’s best-selling books of 2009. His third book, Thinking in Numbers, was published in 2012 by Hodder & Stoughton in the United Kingdom and in 2013 by Little, Brown and Company in the United States and Canada. Tammet’s books have been published in over 20 languages.
Tammet was elected in 2012 to serve as a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Books in order of publication:
Non-Fiction
Born on a Blue Day (2006)
Embracing the Wide Sky (2009)
Thinking in Numbers (2012)
Every Word Is a Bird We Teach to Sing (2017)
Fragments de paradis (2020), in French
How to be ‘Normal – Notes on the Eccentricities of Modern Life (2020)
Nine Minds: Inner Lives on the Spectrum (2025)
Novels
Mishenka (2016), in French
Poetry
Portraits (2018), bilingual edition (English / French)
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