Donna Williams, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Donna Williams

Australian writer, artist, singer-songwriter, screenwriter and sculptor

Date of Birth: 12-Oct-1963

Place of Birth: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Date of Death: 22-Apr-2017

Profession: screenwriter, writer, singer, singer-songwriter, sculptor, autobiographer

Nationality: Australia

Zodiac Sign: Libra

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Donna Leanne Williams, also known by her married name Donna Leanne Samuel (born Donna Keene; 12 October 1963 – 22 April 2017), was an Australian writer, artist, singer-songwriter, screenwriter and sculptor. In 1965, aged two, Williams was assessed as "psychotic".
During the rest of her childhood, she was tested multiple times for deafness and labelled as "disturbed".
In 1991, she was diagnosed as autistic and also underwent treatment for gut, immune system and sensory perceptual disorders.
She wrote four autobiographies – Nobody Nowhere: The Extraordinary Autobiography of an Autistic Girl (1992), Somebody Somewhere: Breaking Free from the World of Autism (1994), Like Colour to the Blind: Soul Searching and Soul Finding (1998) and Everyday Heaven: Journeys Beyond the Stereotypes of Autism (2004) – and released two albums, Nobody Nowhere and Mutations.
During the mid-1990s, she was the subject of several TV documentaries. Williams wrote textbooks on the autism spectrum and was a qualified teacher, international public speaker and autism consultant.
On 9 December 2000, she married her second husband, Chris Samuel.
The couple resided in Melbourne from 2002. Williams died of cancer on 22 April 2017.