Happy Sunday, We know many of our followers in the U.K. and Ireland have been waiting to see the Ric Burns documentary “Oliver Sacks: His Own Life” for a while…
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A classic Oliver Sacks book gets an upgrade.
Dear Readers, Shortly before his death, Oliver Sacks wrote an essay looking back on his seminal 1985 book, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. We are thrilled…
The periodic table in Oliver Sacks’ wallet.
Dear Friends, Oliver Sacks was prolific. Besides 16 published books, he also left behind a legacy of brilliant essays, lectures, unpublished drafts, journals, letters, notes, marginalia, audio recordings, film, and…
Radiolab’s Robert Krulwich, Oliver Sacks documentary on PBS American Masters
Dear Friends, We are delighted to announce that Ric Burns’ documentary Oliver Sacks: His Own Life will be broadcast throughout the United States on PBS’ American Masters, premiering at 9 p.m….
“We are not given the world: we make our world”
Dear Friends, Happy New Year! ¡Feliz Año Nuevo! We are delighted to announce that Ric Burns’ film Oliver Sacks: His Own Life is now available for streaming in the U.S. on iTunes, Amazon, Vudu, and Google…
Happy holidays from the Oliver Sacks Foundation!
Dear Friends, We wish you a very peaceful, healthy holiday season. Among the other things we have to celebrate at this time of year, this week marks the 30th anniversary…
“My predominant feeling is one of gratitude”
Dear friends, Any time we ask you all about your favorite Oliver Sacks quotes, there’s one excerpt that comes up again and again, a section of one of the essays…
A book, a film, and a voting plan
Dear Readers, Is it autumn so soon? We have so much news to catch up on! First off, we are delighted to announce a new edition of Oliver Sacks’s third…
A Less Remembered Pandemic
Dear Readers, We hope you are staying healthy and safe in these extremely difficult times. Reading, as we all are, about the spread of Covid-19 inevitably reminds us of the…
A Botanical End-of-Year Message From the Sacks Team
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…
Watch a Clip From the Oliver Sacks Documentary
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…
Contribute to an Oliver Sacks Biography!
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…
Parkinson’s Awareness Month and More
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…
A New Oliver Sacks Book and Photos From the Archive
Everything in Its Place, the final collection of essays by Oliver Sacks, will be available on April 23, 2019. Publishers Weekly calls it “a treat for the chronically curious.” They write:…
A new Oliver Sacks book is on the way!
We are proud to announce a final collection of essays–many never before published, coming your way on April 23, 2019! Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales,…
Celebrating Oliver Sacks’s Birthday
Oliver loved to celebrate his birthday, July 9. He would start the day with a swim, and then we would round up the usual suspects and throw a party with…
The Animated Mind of Oliver Sacks — a film in progress
Oliver Sacks’s animated mind is becoming an animated film, and we hope you will be a part of it! Dempsey Rice, the filmmaker who brought us so many fascinating interviews…
Creativity Depends on Openness to Change
How we wish Dr. Sacks were still alive to see the glorious reviews for his new book, The River of Consciousness. In this week’s New York Times Book Review, Nicole Krauss writes: “In…
A New Oliver Sacks Book! and two live events
Two weeks before his death in August 2015, Oliver Sacks outlined the contents of The River of Consciousness, the last book he would oversee in detail, and charged three of…
Remembering Bob Silvers
Last week we lost the legendary, irreplaceable Robert B. Silvers at the age of 87. In a 2010 interview with New York Magazine, Oliver Sacks was asked, “Who is your…