Uta frith biography sample

Two Heads

Published in 2022 by Scribner in the USA, Bloomsbury in the UK, with international translations to follow.

Uta frith biography sample

The book was The Guardian’s graphic novel of the month, read their review here: The Guardian

Two Heads is written by leading neuroscientists, professors Uta Frith and Chris Frith, in collaboration with their son, Alex Frith; with art by Daniel Locke.

Two Heads is a graphic biography that tells the story of the birth of neuroscience through the 40-year careers of professors Uta and Chris Frith. Dame Uta Frith, president of the British Science Association and a research psychologist, is one of the world’s leading researchers into autism and dyslexia, while Dr Chris Frith is a neuroscientist who has spent his research career working on schizophrenia, and also led the team which discovered the enlarged brains of London black cab drivers.

Worldwide, their work has shaped the way that researchers and clinicians think about the mind an