Wild or Feral Children have fascinated us down the centuries, and continue to do so today.
He divides his time between London and Princeton, New Jersey..
He currently teaches at Princeton University.
Savage Girls and Wild Boys is his first book.
About author(s): Michael Newton has taught at University College London and Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design.
He tells the story of a Savage girl lost on the streets of Paris; of two Children brought up by wolves in the jungles of India; of a boy brought up among monkeys in Uganda; and in Moscow, of a child found living with a pack of Wild dogs.
He looks at Peter the Wild Boy, who gripped the attention of Swift and Defoe, and at Victor of Aveyron who roamed the forests of revolutionary France.
In a haunting and hugely readable study, Michael Newton deftly investigates a number of infamous cases.
Wild or Feral Children have fascinated us down the centuries, and continue to do so today
