Oliver Sacks

Oliver Wolf Sacks (1933–2015) was a British neurologist and writer celebrated for bringing clinical case histories to a wide readership. Born in London, he trained in medicine at The Queen’s College, Oxford, and later worked in the United States, including at Beth Abraham Hospital in the Bronx. His books explore neurological disorders through detailed, humane portraits of patients and the questions their lives raise about perception, memory, and identity. Sacks gained international recognition with *Awakenings* (1973), about post-encephalitic patients treated with L-DOPA, and *The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat* (1985). He also wrote memoirs, including *On the Move* (2015).