I’m delighted to share that my novel William Sidis’ Perfect Life has now been published in Spanish under the title La vida perfecta de William Sidis, by Duomo Ediciones. This marks the book’s seventh international edition, following previous translations into French, Italian, German, Greek, and Korean.
The novel is based on the remarkable and tragic true story of William James Sidis, often described as the most intelligent man who ever lived. Born in 1898, Sidis could read newspapers at age two, had mastered several languages by age six, and entered Harvard University before his twelfth birthday.
At the age of eleven, he gave a lecture on the fourth dimension to an audience of leading mathematicians and physicists at Harvard. The newspapers hailed him as a prodigy, a “new Newton,” a genius destined to change the world. But instead of fulfilling the lofty expectations placed upon him, Sidis vanished from public life.
He spent his adult years working as a low-level clerk under false names, writing secret manuscripts, and trying to live unnoticed. Why did he walk away from the world that once celebrated him? What happens when a child becomes a symbol of human potential too early—and loses the right to live an ordinary life?
William Sidis’ Perfect Life is a novel about intelligence and isolation, about love, failure, freedom—and the burden of being extraordinary. Through a fictional lens grounded in real events, it explores what it means to be human in a world that prizes genius but often fails to understand it.
I wrote this book not to celebrate Sidis as a curiosity or a spectacle, but to offer an intimate portrait of a man trying to reclaim his autonomy in a world that never gave him a choice.
La vida perfecta de William Sidis is now available in bookstores across Spain and online.
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