Since then he was unable to travel, so our communication was less personal, but he was scrupulously professional, polite and helpful. Soon after I started at Picador in 2008, I met Oliver with his remarkable editor and assistant, Kate Edgar, and his long-time publicist, Jacqui Graham, and was given the once over. One consolation is that there are several books from Oliver still to come, on the widest range of subjects, as well as a collection of Letters and Journals which will shed more light on this rich and brilliant life. I had become aware of his writing with the publication of The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat in 1985, and it has been a privilege in my time at Picador to be able to publish new books by Oliver as well as reissue all of his writing. '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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