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Oliver Sacks

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Oliver Sacks was a physician, bestselling author and professor of neurology at New York University’s School of Medicine, often referred to as ‘the poet laureate of medicine’. Oliver’s work defies generational, geographical and gender divides to emerge as some of the world’s most seminal examinations of the human brain. A legend in his field, Oliver Sacks was known the world over for his bestselling collections of case studies, as well as his genre-defining memoirs. The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat, Awakenings, Uncle Tungsten and On the Move are just a few of Sacks’s best-known works and have cemented his status as one of the modern world’s foremost thinkers. Now, in a timely, celebratory and blistering collection of letters, we come to know Oliver even more.

Author Biography:

Oliver Sacks was born in 1933 in London and was educated at the Queen’s College, Oxford. He completed his medical training at San Francisco’s Mount Zion Hospital and at UCLA before moving to New York, where he soon encountered the patients whom he would write about in his book Awakenings. Dr Sacks spent almost fifty years working as a neurologist and wrote many books, including The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat, Musicophilia, and Hallucinations, about the strange neurological predicaments and conditions of his patients. The New York Times referred to him as ‘the poet laureate of medicine’, and over the years he received many awards, including honours from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Royal College of Physicians. In 2008 he was appointed Commander of the British Empire. His memoir, On the Move, was published shortly before his death in August 2015.

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November 7th, 2024

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