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

Bill Hayes is the author of “Insomniac City: New York, Oliver Sacks, and Me,” and “Sweat: A History of Exercise,” as well as the screenplay for a forthcoming film adaptation of ...

The neurologist and writer communicated with a wide network of friends and professional acquaintance. He never lost the sense ...

In “ The Oliver Sacks I Knew and Loved Once Saw Himself as a Failure,” NYT, 10/19/24. Bill Hayes, Oliver Sacks’s partner in the last six years of his life, writes: ...