Letters
A New Yorker Best Book of 2024 • The letters of one of the greatest observers of the human species, revealing his passion for life and work, friendship and art, medicine and society, and the richness of his relationships with friends, family, and fellow intellectuals over the decades, collected here for the first time.
“Here is the unedited Oliver Sacks—struggling, passionate, a furiously intelligent misfit. And also endless interesting. He was a man like no other.” —Atul Gawande, author of Being Mortal
Dr. Oliver Sacks—who describes himself in these pages as a “philosophical physician” and a “neuropathological Talmudist”—wrote letters throughout his life: to his parents and his beloved Auntie Len, to friends and colleagues from London, Oxford, California, and around the world.…
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November 5, 2024
OLIVER SACKS, referred by the New York Times as “the poet laureate of medicine,” spent more than fifty years working as a neurologist and writing books about the neurological predicaments and conditions of his patients, including The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Musicophilia, and Awakenings. His work was frequently published in The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books, and over the years, he received many awards, including honors from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Royal College of Physicians.
Letters
Oliver Sacks
A Leg to Stand On
Oliver Sacks
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
Oliver Sacks
Everything in Its Place
Oliver Sacks
The River of Consciousness
Oliver Sacks
Neurotribes
Steve Silberman; Foreword by Oliver Sacks
On the Move
Oliver Sacks
Gratitude
Oliver Sacks
Hallucinations
Oliver Sacks
Oaxaca Journal
Oliver Sacks
The Mind's Eye
Oliver Sacks
Awakenings
Oliver Sacks
Migraine
Oliver Sacks