Author and polymath Aaron Dworkin shares life and challenges in new memoir

Aaron Dworkin just published a new memoir, "Lessons in Gratitude" (Courtesy of Shawn Lee)

Aaron Dworkin has led an extraordinary life.

From his beginnings as a prodigious child violin player in Hershey, Pennsylvania, to a prestigious MacArthur Fellowship and a seat on the National Council on the Arts, he has continued to impress and bring about the change that he hopes to see in the world.

As a young man, he founded the the Sphinx Organization, a groundbreaking organization that aims to diversify classical music and led to his selection as a MacArthur Fellow.