The late author's correspondence shows a restless intellect roving far beyond what we saw in his books 'Awakenings' and 'The ...

Here's how they put it in an essay celebrating Sacks' 80th birthday: We can emulate Oliver, as he writes not only about the chemical play of his childhood and 19th-century chemistry, but also when ...

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

Six decades of the neurologist’s correspondence have been expertly woven into a collection of humanistic observations, ...

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Mr. Hayes is the author of the memoir “Insomniac City: New York, Oliver Sacks, and Me” and was Dr. Sacks’s partner in the last six years of his life. The Oliver Sacks that most of the world ...

Oliver Sacks is one of the few scientists who has accomplished this with his chosen subject matter, the brain: he skyrocketed to fame in 1973 with his book Awakenings and has remained a household name ...

from a Thou whom we respect untheological relationships demand. 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 ...

When Oliver Sacks died in 2015, the world lost a polymathic scientist, a man of great energy and infinite curiosity. The physician and author of “Awakenings” (1973), “The Man Who Mistook His ...

Inspired by two of the books by the globally acclaimed neurologist and writer Oliver Sacks, the series will delve into the case studies that challenge medical understanding. One of the reasons for ...

Oliver Sacks fell into the latter category ... They function as a kind of biography of Sacks’ inner life and the felicitous and rigorous nature of his thought. The son of two physicians ...

Oliver Sacks was a compulsive letter-writer. From 1985, when he became famous for The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat, he received about 5000 letters a year and tried to reply to all of them.