Neurologist and Author Oliver Sacks Has Died

By Maryann Yin 

Oliver Sacks (GalleyCat)Dr. Oliver Sacks has died. He was 82 years old.

CNN reports that Sacks (pictured, via) achieved great success as both a neurologist and an author. Some of his most popular books include Awakenings (1973), The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (1985), and Seeing Voices: A Journey Into the World of the Deaf (1989).

Here’s more from The New York Times: “More than a million copies of his books are in print in the United States, his work was adapted for film and stage, and he received about 10,000 letters a year…Dr. Sacks variously described his books and essays as case histories, pathographies, clinical tales or ‘neurological novels.’ His subjects included Madeleine J., a blind woman who perceived her hands only as useless ‘lumps of dough’; Jimmie G., a submarine radio operator whose amnesia stranded him for more than three decades in 1945; and Dr. P. — the man who mistook his wife for a hat — whose brain lost the ability to decipher what his eyes were seeing.”