Kim Peek the Real Rain Man Died at the age of 58. Kim Peek was a savant with a remarkable memory and inspired writer Barry Morrow to write Rain Man, the 1988 movie starring Dustin Hoffman. (born November 11, 1951) is a prodigious savant known as a megasavant. He has a photographic or eidetic memory, but also social developmental problems and was cared for by his father who is over 80.  At the time of his death. Peek is believed to have committed at least 9000 books to memory. Kim Peek’s father says his son died this weekend of a massive heart attack at his suburban Salt Lake City home

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