Dinah Murray
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Dinah Murray | |
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 Dinah at 71 | |
| Born | 27 May 1946 Hampstead, London, England |
| Died | 7 July 2021 (aged 75) |
| Education | North London Collegiate School |
| Alma mater | University College London |
| Occupations | Autism advocate and campaigner |
| Awards | Lifetime Achievement Award by the National Autistic Society |
Dinah Karen Crawshay Murray (27 May 1946 – 7 July 2021) was a writer, educator and campaigner for autistic people. She collaborated in developing the theory of monotropism as a way of explaining autism in terms of a tendency to focus intensely on a subject.[1]
Murray was born in Hampstead, London, the daughter of Labour Party politician, Tony Greenwood, who was a member of Harold Wilson's cabinet. Her mother Jill Greenwood, was a writer who created and illustrated the pamphlet Make Do and Mend, published during World War II, and was co-founder of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Murray's godfather was the Labour Prime Minister of the time, Clement Attlee.[2] Murray attended Byron House school in Highgate and the North London Collegiate School. She worked for Penguin Books as a copy editor before attending University College London, where she earned a degree in Linguistics and Anthropology in 1969.[3]
