'To have become the publisher of Oliver Sacks in the UK & Commonwealth territories was one of the extraordinary highlights of becoming the publisher at Picador. Paul Baggaley, Publisher, Picador commented: He was the author of thirteen books, including Musicophilia, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, and Awakenings (which inspired the Oscar-nominated film). Dr Sacks was a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books and the New Yorker, as well as various medical journals.
From 1965 he lived in New York City, where he is a professor of neurology at the NYU School of Medicine and consultant neurologist to the Little Sisters of the Poor. He received his medical education at Oxford and trained at Mt Zion Hospital in San Francisco and at UCLA. Oliver Sacks was born in London in 1933, into a family of physicians and scientists.
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