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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Awakenings

“One of the most beautifully composed and moving works of our time. . . . Not only a collection of astonishing case histories, Awakenings is also a memoir, a moral essay and a romance. . . . A work of genius.” — The Washington Post

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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