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Oliver Sacks (1933-2015) had a highly unusual career. The titles of some of the neurologist’s books tell you how unusual. “Awakenings” (1973), “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat ...
How the True Story of Dr. Oliver Sacks Inspired NBC’s ‘Brilliant Minds’ Zachary Quinto stars as Dr. Oliver Wolf in the new medical drama — meet the real neurologist who inspired the character ...
Both Hayes and Sacks had experienced a lot of suffering, and their friendship slowly became a love affair. Hayes was 48, still healing from the heartbreak of losing his former partner, and Oliver ...
Author and neurologist Oliver Sacks, best known for inspiring the Robin Williams-Robert De Niro movie 'Awakenings,' is profiled in the documentary 'Oliver Sacks: His Own Life.' By Stephen Farber ...
SACKS? A Biographical Memoir of Oliver Sacks By Lawrence Weschler. During his final months, as he was dying of cancer in 2015, Oliver Sacks gave Lawrence Weschler a spectacular gift that may also ...
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 ...
Oliver Sacks is the kind of subject for whom any portrait has an extremely high floor. There’s a patience and an accessibility in his written work that, if mirrored in the approach of any kind ...
When the celebrated neurologist and writer Oliver Sacks was a schoolboy, a teacher noted on his report card: “Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far.” It was a perceptive comment, for as ...
Oliver Sacks is the kind of subject for whom any portrait has an extremely high floor. There’s a patience and an accessibility in his written work that, if mirrored in the approach of any kind ...
Oliver Sacks, a dear colleague of mine at The New Yorker and in the world of medicine, was an inspiration to me and to countless physicians. A great deal will be said in the coming days about ...
An Oliver Sacks Book Becomes an Opera, With Help From Friends Tobias Picker and Aryeh Lev Stollman have adapted “Awakenings,” drawing both on source material and personal experience. Share ...