Dr. Oliver Sacks, whose books like "The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat" probed distant ranges of human experience by compassionately portraying people with severe and sometimes bizarre ...

Rachel Aviv explored the personal journals of the celebrated neurologist and writer Oliver Sacks. What she found was shocking: he had fabricated and embellished some of his most well-known work — like ...

NEW YORK -- There was the blind man who had the disastrous experience of regaining his sight. The surgeon who developed a sudden passion for music after being struck by lightning. And most famously, ...

Oliver Sacks’s Letters, at 752 pages, is anachronistic in two respects. First, there is the spectacle of six decades’ worth of correspondence, meticulously preserved (Oliver Sacks cloned every ...

Oliver Sacks, a neurologist and best-selling author who explored the human brain one patient at a time, has died of cancer. He was 82. Sacks was best known for his books The Man Who Mistook His Wife ...

Oliver Sacks, the author of "Awakenings" and "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat," speaks at Columbia University in 2009. (Chris McGrath / Getty Images) There are those who can write, and those ...

The author Maria Konnikova discovered Sacks’ work in high school — “it blew my mind”, she writes. After the Aviv piece was published, Konnikova wrote a post about Sacks: The man who mistook his ...

You’re reading The New Yorker’s daily newsletter, a guide to our top stories, featuring exclusive insights from our writers and editors. Sign up to receive it in your inbox. The neurologist Oliver ...

Although there's no shortage of medical dramas on the air, Brilliant Minds sets itself apart by taking its inspiration from Oliver Sacks, the famed neurologist whose groundbreaking work was previously ...

Following in the footsteps of Jane Goodall and Toni Morrison MFA '55, Dr. Oliver Sacks, a neurologist and noted author, will visit Cornell for the next week and a half as an Andrew Dickson White ...

Aug 30 (Reuters) - Oliver Sacks, the neurologist who studied the intricacies of the brain and wrote eloquently about them in books such as "Awakenings" and "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat," ...

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