When he was six years old, he and his brother were evacuated from London to escape The Blitz, retreating to a boarding school in the Midlands, where he remained until 1943. Sacks was the youngest of four children born to a prosperous North London Jewish couple: Sam, a physician, and Elsie, a surgeon. It does not store any personal data.Oliver Wolf Sacks, CBE, was a British neurologist residing in the United States, who has written popular books about his patients, the most famous of which is Awakenings, which was adapted into a film of the same name starring Robin Williams and Robert De Niro. The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category 'Performance'. This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category 'Other. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category 'Necessary'.

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Everything in Its Place, a final volume of essays was published posthumously in 2019. He engaged with the most compelling and seminal ideas of human endeavor in The River of Consciousness, and reflected on what it means to live a good and worthwhile life in Gratitude. Sacks wrote two memoirs: Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood and On the Move: A Life. He explored the many manifestations of migraines in Migraine, wrote about an unfortunate accident involving a bull in A Leg To Stand On, and published a spellbinding account of his trip to Mexico with a group of fern enthusiasts in Oaxaca Journal.ĭr. He investigated the world of Deaf people and sign language in Seeing Voices, a rare community of colorblind people in The Island of the Colorblind, and examined the visual brain in his books The Mind’s Eye and Hallucinations. Oliver Sacks is best known for his books of case histories such as The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Musicophilia, An Anthropologist on Mars, and Awakenings.

Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks