Remembering Oliver Sacks
The pioneering writer and neurologist Dr. Oliver Sacks, who died in 2015, was beloved for his compassion and creativity. Sacks was deeply invested in the lives and well-being of his patients \u2013 people with neurological conditions that included Tourette\u2019s, hallucinations, and autism.\xa0 He was a phenomenal storyteller, whose many case studies \u2013 he called them \u2018neurological novels\u2019 \u2013 include \u201cThe Man Who
\nMistook His Wife For A Hat\u201d and \u201cAwakenings\u201d.\xa0 On April 17, 2020, author Steve Silberman hosted a conversation with Sacks\u2019 longtime collaborator Kate Edgar, and Temple Grandin, one of the world\u2019s
\nbest-known autistic adults.\xa0 Their memories of Sacks are interspersed with clips from a new documentary about his life and work, \u201cOliver Sacks: His Own Life\u201d. \xa0