Temple Grandin

Temple Grandin’s unlikely route to celebrity followed the path of cows to the slaughterhouse. Grandin has an exceptionally visual form of autism; her mind allows her to review memories and observations in a detailed, cinematic mode. She also believes that she thinks the way animals do. Grandin used both these skills to design a chute system, widely adopted by slaughterhouses, by which cows are more humanely delivered to their doom. Literary neuroscientist Oliver Sacks wrote about Grandin in his book of case studies, An Anthropologist on Mars, and Grandin followed this burst of attention with two books of her own: Thinking in Pictures and Animals in Translation. If she’s right about the way animals think, these books will give you new insight into the life of your dog. 3022 Hennepin Ave. S., Minneapolis; www.magersandquinn.com