GENIUS IN RESIDENCE

by Audrey Grost ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 8, 1970

Genius is usually the indeffmable purlieu of fatuous grandmothers but Mike Grost is a genius, a nice, normal genius whom you may have read about in the media (along with that Harvard Wunder-kind). Long before kindergarten Mike was reading just ""like Mortimer Adler"" and having absorbed two encyclopedias in toto, Mike did not respond to Dick and Jane. At six he was ready to become a drop-out. Mrs. Grost spends considerable time in exposing the difficulties of schools (Lansing, Michigan) which neglect the advantaged child (as someone said later, ""Helping gifted children is like taking up a collection for Howard Hughes""). At ten, Mike was enrolled at Michigan State University and he did, as was anticipated, phenomenally well. His never irritatingly proud mother tells the story of her young genius savant in a chatty fashion and certainly it can coast on its literally exceptional human interest.

Pub Date: Sept. 8, 1970

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Prentice-Hall

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 1, 1970

Categories: NONFICTION