After Silberman interviewed Ginsberg for Whole Earth Review in 1987 the two became friends and Ginsberg invited Silberman to be his teaching assistant the next term at Naropa University. Silberman studied with Allen Ginsberg at Naropa University in 1977.
He was friends with the musician David Crosby with whom he hosted a podcast. Silberman moved to San Francisco in 1979, drawn by three factors: so that he could live "a gay life without fear" because of the music of Crosby, Stills and Nash, the Grateful Dead, and others and so he could be near the San Francisco Zen Center. Silberman studied psychology at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, then received a master's degree in English literature from Berkeley, where his thesis advisor was Thom Gunn. In 2016, he gave the keynote address at the United Nations on World Autism Awareness Day. Silberman's Twitter account made Time magazine's list of the best Twitter feeds for the year 2011. Additionally, Silberman's Wired article "The Geek Syndrome", which focused on autism in Silicon Valley, has been referenced by many sources and has been described as a culturally significant article for the autism community.
Silberman's 2015 book Neurotribes, which discusses the autism rights and neurodiversity movements, was awarded the Samuel Johnson Prize. In 2010, Silberman was awarded the AAAS "Kavli Science Journalism Award for Magazine Writing." His featured article, known as "The Placebo Problem" discussed the impact of placebos on the pharmaceutical industry. Steve Silberman is an American writer for Wired magazine and has been an editor and contributor there for 14 years. Kavli Science Journalism Award for Magazine Writing
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