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“The Poet Laureate of Medicine”

— The New York Times

Oliver Sacks is a physician, best-selling author, and professor of neurology at the NYU School of Medicine.

He is the author of many books, including Musicophilia, Awakenings, and The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat.

His newest book is his autobiography: EVERYTHING IN ITS PLACE.

“The Poet Laureate of Medicine”

— The New York Times

Dr. Oliver Sacks was a physician, best-selling author, and professor of neurology.

He is the author of many books, including Musicophilia, Awakenings, and The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat.

EVERYTHING IN ITS PLACE, Dr. Sacks’s final collection of essays, is available now.

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Books by Oliver Sacks

NewEverything In Its Place

New The River of Consciousness

Gratitude

On The Move

View All Books

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TED Talks: Oliver Sacks

What Hallucination Reveals About Our Minds

Neurologist and author Oliver Sacks brings our attention to Charles Bonnet syndrome — when visually impaired people experience lucid hallucinations. He describes the experiences of his patients in heartwarming detail and walks us through the biology of this under-reported phenomenon.

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A Botanical End-of-Year Message From the Sacks Team

December 21, 2019 / Kate Edgar / News

Hello friends, Dr. Sacks would be thrilled to know that a newly identified species of fern has been named Ceradenia sacksii, “Sacks’ waxy-gland fern” by botanist Michael Sundue. This is a…

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Watch a Clip From the Oliver Sacks Documentary

September 25, 2019 / Kate Edgar / News

We are very excited to announce that Oliver Sacks: His Own Life, a Ric Burns documentary on the life and work of Oliver Sacks,  premiered last week at the Telluride Film…

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Contribute to an Oliver Sacks Biography!

July 9, 2019 / Kate Edgar / News

  Dear readers, Happy July 9th (the 86th anniversary of Oliver Sacks’s birth)! We are very excited to announce that Laura J. Snyder has begun working on the definitive biography of Oliver…

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Parkinson’s Awareness Month and More

April 22, 2019 / Kate Edgar / News

  Did you know that Oliver Sacks once bought a house during a swim around New York’s City Island? He lived there for over twenty years. In his upcoming essay…

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