Oliver Sacks is a physician and the author of many books, including The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Awakenings (which inspired the Oscar-nominated film) and Musicophilia. Born in London and educated at Oxford, he now lives in New York City, where he is Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at Columbia University. He is the first, and only, Columbia University Artist, and is also a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. In 2008, he was appointed Commander of the British Empire.
'Sacks writes, basically, adventure stories, accounts of voyages into the unexplained territory of the brain' Sunday Times 'Sacks writes, basically, adventure stories, accounts of voyages into the unexplained territory of the brain' Sunday Times