Oliver Sacks was a compulsive letter-writer. From 1985, when he became famous for The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat, he ...

Oliver Sacks, a neurologist and best-selling author who explored the human brain one patient at a time, has died of cancer. He was 82. Sacks was best known for his books The Man Who Mistook His ...

A new documentary, Oliver Sacks: His Own Life, chronicles the late neurologist's efforts to understand perception, memory and consciousness. Sacks spoke to Fresh Air in 2012.

The late author's correspondence shows a restless intellect roving far beyond what we saw in his books 'Awakenings' and 'The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat.' ...

Oliver Wolf Sacks was born in London on July 9, 1933, the youngest of four sons. His mother was a surgeon and the first woman allowed to join the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons.

Facebook X Reddit Email Save “It has always seemed to me that I have lived at a certain distance from life,” author-neurologist Oliver Sacks writes in the final pages of what will possibly be ...

So Oliver Sacks’s career started in early 1950s, and it’s not surprising to me that it’s something he felt early in his career. He really has lived through a tremendous change in the culture ...

Oliver Sacks, a dear colleague of mine at The New Yorker and in the world of medicine, was an inspiration to me and to countless physicians. A great deal will be said in the coming days about ...

Oliver Sacks wrote me a letter,” said Hayes on how the unlikely duo initially met. Sacks had read Hayes’ latest book and wrote to let him know how much he had enjoyed it.

Yet they were beloved by the characteristically shy Oliver Sacks, the famed neurologist and writer who had an eye for finding the universal in hyper-specific, often strange case studies.