AKA Oliver Wolf Sacks

Born: 9-Jul-1933
Birthplace: London, England

Gender: Male
Religion: Atheist
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: See Note [1]
Occupation: Doctor, Author

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Awakenings

    High School: St. Paul's School
    Medical School: Oxford University (1958)
    Medical School: UCLA (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

Official Website:
http://www.oliversacks.com/

Author of books:
Migraine (1970, nonfiction)
Awakenings (1973, nonfiction)
A Leg to Stand On (1984, nonfiction)
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (1985, nonfiction)
Seeing Voices: A Journey into the World of the Deaf (1989, nonfiction)
An Anthropologist on Mars (1995, nonfiction)
The Island of the Colourblind (1996, nonfiction)
Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood (2001, memoir)
Oaxaca Journal (2002, nonfiction)
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (2007, nonfiction)

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