Oliver Sacks is a physician, best-selling author, and professor of neurology and psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center.

He is the author of ten books, including The Mind's Eye, Musicophilia, Awakenings, and The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat — and was the first to receive honors as a Columbia University Artist, in recognition of his contributions to the arts.

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The Music Never Stopped

The Music Never Stopped

A feature film based on the essay “The Last Hippie” from AN ANTHROPOLOGIST ON MARS. Featuring music from the Grateful Dead, the Beatles, Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones and Crosby, Stills and Nash.

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The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat


“One sees a wise, compassionate and very literate mind at work in these twenty stories, nearly all remarkable, and many the kind that restore one’s faith in humanity.”
— The Chicago Sun-Times

The Mind's Eye: Now in Paperback

In The Mind's Eye, Oliver Sacks tells the stories of people who are able to navigate the world and communicate with others despite losing...

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