Stephen Wiltshire's American Dream

Stephen Wiltshire, the 17-year-old autistic artist of memory drawings, made three visits to the United States which he regards as his spiritual home. He visited Chicago, the birthplace of the skyscraper, and Washington. The second trip was to San Fransisco, Los Angeles (where Stephen can act out his own celluloid fantasies) and a visit to the Grand Canyon. Finally, he visited New York which contains everything he adores about America - skyscrapers, yellow cabs, police-sirens, hamburgers and pretty girls - and which has elicited some of Stephen's work collected in this book.