Oliver Sacks
Oliver Sacks (1933-2015) was a British neurologist and author of non-fiction books. The subject of most of his works were his own patients, including the novel Awakenings that was adapted to a film starring Robert De Niro and Robin Williams. Sacks was born in North London to two doctors and evacuated to the Midlands during the Blitz. Like his parents, he would also go into medicine and earned his BA in physiology and biology from The Queen’s College, Oxford University. He would later earn his MA and MB ChB from there as well. Sacks would then move to New York, where he lived from 1966 until his death.
