So Oliver Sacks’s career started in early 1950s ... With the publication of his best-selling books Awakenings and Migraine, Sacks recalls in his memoir, “Suddenly I was in contact with ...

In his best-selling 1985 book ... Despite the drama and unusual stories, his books were not literary freak shows. "Oliver Sacks humanizes illness ... he writes of body and mind, and from 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 ...

Some people start hearing music when they recline, writes author/neurologist Oliver ... books focusing primarily on the brain and its amazing capacities, deficits and methods of coping, Sacks ...

It also exemplifies the exceptionally advanced and sometimes stymying lexical breadth of Oliver ... to Sacks’s medical specialty, neurology, as chronicled in his often best-selling books ...

Oliver Sacks ... curiosity made Sacks a great physician, which is how he always thought of himself. It's also a crucial quality in a writer, and Sacks used it in a series of books that used ...

151; -- Renowned neurologist and author of "Awakenings" Oliver Sacks died today ... that he was in the stages of terminal cancer. Sacks is best known for his writing on neurological case histories ...

NEW YORK — Dr. Oliver Sacks, whose books like “The Man Who Mistook His ... with a writer’s eye and found publishing gold. In his best-selling 1985 book, he described a man who really did ...

Oliver Sacks, the famed neurologist and best-selling author of books such as The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, died of cancer today in New York City at the age of 82, a longtime friend and ...