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

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

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 ...

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

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 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 ...

Author, neurologist, and generally excellent dude Oliver Sacks shows how advanced age can bring advanced creativity. Wanted: New Covers Breathe New Life Into Classics By Oliver Sacks In-house ...

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.