Kate Edgar’s compilation paints a detailed portrait of a sometimes shy, uncertain, excitable human who was also a deeply ...

Oliver Sacks was a compulsive letter-writer. From 1985, when he became famous for The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat, he received about 5000 letters a year and tried to reply to all of them.

Oliver Sacks is one of the few scientists who has accomplished this with his chosen subject ... in his narratives that he began to explore ten years prior in his most well-known book, The Man Who ...

on June 1974, Oliver Sacks wrote to Bob Rodman, a psychiatrist who had been a close friend since they were both medical residents at UCLA. Rodman’s wife, Maria – only 38 years old – had been ...