| Oliver Sacks AKA Oliver Wolf Sacks Born: 9-Jul-1933
Birthplace: London, England
Died: 30-Aug-2015
Location of death: New York City
Cause of death: Cancer - unspecified
Gender: Male
Religion: Atheist
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Gay
Occupation: Doctor, Author Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Awakenings "Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure." Father: Sam Sacks
Mother: Elsie Landau
Brother: Michael
Brother: David
Boyfriend: Bill Hayes (until his death)
High School: St. Paul's School
Medical School: Oxford University (1958)
Medical School: University of California at Los Angeles (1961-65)
Professor: Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY (1965-2007)
Professor: New York University
Professor: Columbia University (2007-)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Honorary Fellow
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
American Academy of Neurology
American Fern Society
American Neurological Association Honorary
American Stereoscopic Society
Association of British Neurologists Honorary
British Pteridological Society
New York Academy of Sciences
Society for Neuroscience
Guggenheim Fellowship (1989)
Polk Award Magazine Reporting (1994)
Lithuanian Ancestry
Russian Ancestry
Jewish Ancestry
Risk Factors: Depression, Amphetamines, LSD, Claustrophobia, Liver Cancer
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Alive Inside (18-Jan-2014) · Himself
At First Sight (12-Jan-1999) · Reporter
Official Website:
http://www.oliversacks.com/
Author of books:
Migraine: The Evolution of a Common Disorder (1970, science)
Awakenings (1973, nonfiction)
A Leg to Stand On (1984, science)
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (1985, science)
Seeing Voices: A Journey Into the World of the Deaf (1989, science)
An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales (1995, science)
The Island of the Colorblind (1997, science)
Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood (2001, memoir)
Oaxaca Journal (2002, travelogue)
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (2007, science)
The Mind's Eye (2010, science)
On the Move: A Life (2015, memoir)
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