A remarkable celebration of Sacks's varied interests, told with his characteristic compassion and erudition, and in his luminous prose.
Oliver Sacks was born in 1933 in London and was educated at 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.
For more information, please visit www.oliversacks.com.
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