“Oliver Sacks adored letters,” she writes in the ... Meanwhile, he was competing in powerlifting competitions, riding his motorcycle all over North America and experimenting with great ...

Oliver Sacks Foundation Now ... he found refuge in motorcycles, powerlifting and, eventually, an addiction to methamphetamine, which he emerged from with the help of psychoanalysis.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

By Daniel Bergner AND HOW ARE YOU, DR. 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 ...

When neurologist Oliver Sacks died in 2015, he left behind a legacy of more than a half-century of exploration into the inner workings of the human mind. Sacks, who was 82 when he died from ...