Letters, p.81
Letters, page 81
Selected Bibliography
Books by Oliver Sacks with year of first publication:
Migraine (1970)
Awakenings (1973)
A Leg to Stand On (1984)
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (1985)
Seeing Voices: A Journey into the World of the Deaf (1989)
An Anthropologist on Mars (1995)
The Island of the Colorblind (1996)
Uncle Tungsten (2001)
Oaxaca Journal (2002)
Musicophilia (2007)
The Mind’s Eye (2010)
Hallucinations (2012)
On the Move (2015)
Gratitude (2015)
The River of Consciousness (2017)
Everything in Its Place (2019)
Essays by OS referred to in this volume, with first publication information followed by, in most cases, the title of the book in which a version (usually updated, sometimes largely rewritten) is included. For a complete list of publications, see oliversacks.com.
“The Aging Brain”
Everything in Its Place
“Altered States”
The New Yorker, August 27, 2012
Revised version in Hallucinations
“An Anthropologist on Mars”
The New Yorker, December 27, 1993
Revised version in An Anthropologist on Mars
“The Autist Artist”
The New York Review of Books, April 25, 1985
Revised version in The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
“The Axonal Dystrophies” (with W. Jann Brown)
Bulletin of Los Angeles Neurological Society, January 1965
“The Case of Anna H.”
The New Yorker, October 7, 2002
Revised version, “Sight Reading,” in The Mind’s Eye
“The Case of the Colorblind Painter” (with Robert Wasserman)
The New York Review of Books, November 19, 1987
Revised version in An Anthropologist on Mars
“Chaos and Awakenings”
Appendix to the 1990 edition of Awakenings
“Credit to a Pioneer [Étienne-Jules Marey]”
The New York Times Science section, letter to the editor, June 17, 2003
“Cupid’s Disease”
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
“Darwin and the Meaning of Flowers”
The New York Review of Books, November 20, 2008
Revised version in The River of Consciousness
“Dear Mr. A….”
A chapter in W. H. Auden: A Tribute, edited by Stephen Spender, 1975
Revised version in On the Move
“The Disembodied Lady”
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
“The Divine Curse”
Life, September 1988
Revised version included in “Travels with Lowell” in Everything in Its Place
“The Dog Beneath the Skin”
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
“Early Work on Elephant Gait Not to Be Forgotten”
Letter to the editor, Nature, May 15, 2003
Expanded version, “The Elephant’s Gait,” in Everything in Its Place
“Face-Blind”
The New Yorker, August 30, 2010
Revised version in The Mind’s Eye
“The Fallibility of Memory”
The River of Consciousness
“The Great Awakening”
The Listener, October 26, 1972
“Hard Times for Curious Minds”
The New York Times, May 13, 1999
“Humphry Davy: The Poet of Chemistry”
The New York Review of Books, November 4, 1993
Revised version in Everything in Its Place
“In the River of Consciousness”
The New York Review of Books, January 15, 2004
Revised version in The River of Consciousness
“The Landscape of His Dreams”
The New Yorker, July 27, 1992
Revised version in An Anthropologist on Mars
“The Last Hippie”
The New York Review of Books, March 26, 1992
Revised version in An Anthropologist on Mars
“The Leg”
London Review of Books, June 17–30, 1982
Revised version in A Leg to Stand On
“Life Continues”
Everything in Its Place
“The Lost Mariner”
The New York Review of Books, February 16, 1984
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
“The Lost Virtues of the Asylum”
The New York Review of Books, September 24, 2009
Revised version in Everything in Its Place
“The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat”
London Review of Books, May 19, 1983
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
“A Matter of Identity”
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
“The Mental Life of Plants and Worms, Among Others”
The New York Review of Books, April 24, 2014
Revised version, “Sentience: The Mental Lives of Plants and Worms,” in The River of Consciousness
“The Mind of A. R. Luria”
The Listener, June 28, 1973
“The Mind’s Eye”
The New Yorker, July 28, 2003
Revised version in The Mind’s Eye
“Murder”
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
“Musical Ears”
London Review of Books, May 3, 1984
Revised as “Reminiscence” in The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
“Music and the Brain”
Foreword to Clinical Applications of Music in Neurologic Rehabilitation, edited by Concetta M. Tomaino, 1998
“My Own Life”
The New York Review of Books, February 19, 2015
Gratitude
“My Periodic Table”
The New York Times, July 24, 2015
Gratitude
“Mysteries of the Deaf”
The New York Review of Books, March 27, 1986
Revised version in Seeing Voices
“Neurology and the Soul”
The New York Review of Books, November 22, 1990
“Obituary: Professor A. R. Luria: Pioneer Brain Specialist”
The Times (London), September 5, 1977
“A Passage to India”
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
“The Possessed”
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
“Prodigies”
The New Yorker, January 9, 1995
Revised version in An Anthropologist on Mars
“Recalled to Life”
The New Yorker, October 31, 2005
Revised version in The Mind’s Eye
“Remembering Francis Crick”
The New York Review of Books, March 24, 2005
Revised version in On the Move
“The Revolution of the Deaf”
The New York Review of Books, June 2, 1988
Revised version in Seeing Voices
“Sabbath”
The New York Times, August 14, 2015
Gratitude
“Scotoma”
In Hidden Histories of Science, edited by Robert B. Silvers, 1995
Revised version in The River of Consciousness
“Speak, Memory”
The New York Review of Books, February 21, 2013
Revised version, “The Fallibility of Memory,” in The River of Consciousness
“Speed”
The New Yorker, August 23, 2004
Revised version in The River of Consciousness
“Stereo Sue”
The New Yorker, June 11, 2006
Revised version in The Mind’s Eye
“A Surgeon’s Life”
The New Yorker, March 16, 1992
Revised version in An Anthropologist on Mars
“To See and Not See”
The New Yorker, May 10, 1993
Revised version in An Anthropologist on Mars
“Travel Happy (1961)”
Antaeus, Autumn 1988
Abridged version, as part of “San Francisco,” in On the Move
“Travels with Lowell”
Everything in Its Place
“The Twins”
The New York Review of Books, February 28, 1985
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
“Water Babies”
The New Yorker, May 26, 1997
Everything in Its Place
“Witty Ticcy Ray”
London Review of Books, March 19, 1981
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
“Yes, Father-Sister”
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
List of Correspondents
The beginning of each letter to a given correspondent is indicated by boldface page numbers in the Index. People with abbreviated or omitted last names have been de-identified for privacy.
Aldrich, Richard
Alvarez, Al
Auden, W. H.
Aumann, Robert John
Bandel, Andrea
Barnett, Catherine
Barry, Susan R.
Beasley, Barbara
Bekoff, Marc
Belluck, Pam
Bennet, John
Best, Nancy
Bird, Seymour
Björk
Bogdan, Robert
Bonnard, Augusta
Borden, Bill
Böttiger, Lars Erik
Breger, Louis
Brenner, A. K.
Brody, David
Bruner, Jerome
Buscombe, Bob
Cahill, Kevin
Campbell, Donald
Case, R. E.
Chopra, Deepak
Cohen, Joanne
Cohen, Kalman
Cole, Jonathan
Crick, Francis
Cunningham, Jean
Dahl, Tom
Dallas, Duncan
Damasio, Antonio
Daroff, Robert B.
De Luccia, Josephine
Dennett, Daniel
Devinsky, Orrin
Diamond, Jared
Donald, Merlin
Draper, Dave
Dyson, Freeman
Eban, Abba
Edelman, Gerald
Edgar, Kate
Edwards, Peter
Erpelding, Mel
Fahn, Stanley
Fite, George L.
Fox, Orlan
Franck, Vanya
Frank, Dan
Friel, Brian
Frumkes, Lewis
Gardner, Howard
Gawande, Atul
Gelfman, Jane
Genevieve, Mother
Godwin, Dr.
Goldberg, Elkhonon
Goodacre, David
Goodall, Jane
Gould, Stephen Jay
Greene, Raymond
Gregory, Richard
Gunn, Thom
Haycraft, Colin
Hayes, Bill
Henryk-Gutt, Rita
Herrick, Michael
Herz, Rachel
Hobson, Mr.
Hoffmann, Roald
Horgan, John
Horovitz, Anna and Joe
Hughes, James
Hymson, T. J.
Ivins, Marsha
James, Harriett
Jamison, Kay Redfield
Jellinek, Michael
Jennifer F.
John Z.
Katzman, Robert
Keller, Evelyn Fox
Kermode, Frank
Kiell, Paul J.
Klein, Georg
Koch, Christof
Koven, Barnet
Kurtis, Jonathan
Landau, Helena
Lane, Nick
Lee, David
Lee, Lance
Levi-Montalcini, Rita
Levin, Revella
Lindenbaum, Richard
Listener, The, eds.
Luria, A. R.
Maguire, John
Marie Geraldine Therese, Sister
Mathias, Jane
McCormick, Kenneth
McEwen, Dr.
Messeloff, Charles
Miller, Jonathan
Miller, Mrs.
Miller, Rachel
Moorhead, Hugh S.
Mountcastle, Vernon
Mueller, Jonathan
Murphey, Tim
Nascimento, Rodrigo Delfino
Näslund, Görel Kristina
Naylor-Leland, Nicholas
New York State Office of Mental Health
Nicholls, Henry
Nightingale, Benedict
Nilsson, Dan-Eric
Osmond, Humphry
Palmer, Orrin
Papavisiliou, Paul S.
Parkes, Walter
Payne, Christoper
Pearl, Bill
Perrier, Larry
Picker, Tobias
Pinchbeck, Daniel
Pinter, Harold
Poyser, Jim
Presedo, Emilio
Pyle, Eleanor
Ramachandran, V. S.
Rapin, Isabelle
Remnick, David
Riggs, Austin
Riley, Charles A.
Rimland, Bernard
Rodman, F. Robert
Ronza, Marina Molino
Rose, Augustus S.
Rose, Innes
Roth, Emma
Rutherford, Susan
Sacks, Elsie
Sacks, Gay
Sacks, Marcus
Sacks, Michael
Sacks, Samuel
Salter, Leon J.
Samuel, Alison
Schaller, Susan
Seymour L.
Shapiro, Harvey
Shatan, Chaim F.
Shearer, Rhonda
Shubin, Neil
Silberling, Edwyn
Silvers, Robert B.
Singer, Peter
Snellgrove, Marin
Social and Health Issues Review, eds.
Sontag, Susan
Southam, Brian
Stein, Robert C.
Stent, Gunther
Stephan, Karl D.
Stern, Gerald
Stokoe, William
Stone, Sharon
Stow, Cyrus J.
Strawson, Galen
Swales, Peter
Swann, William
Tanaka, Gayle
Theroux, Paul
Tighe, Lillian
Tunberg, William
Turner, Paul
Vincze, Jenö
Wagner, Richard
Warvarovsky, Mike
Wasserman, Robert
Waymouth, Barbara
Weir, Peter
Wendy
Weschler, Lawrence
Whitzman, Stephen
Williams, Robin
Wilson, Frank
Wiltshire, Stephen
Wolpert, Lewis
Wright, Faine
Younes, Nick
Index
The page numbers in this index refer to the printed version of the book. Each link will take you to the beginning of the corresponding print page. You may need to scroll forward from that location to find the corresponding reference on your e-reader.
Boldface numbers indicate the first page of a letter to a correspondent.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
A
Abraham, Karl, 591
Ackerley, J. R., 311
adaption to neurological conditions, 276, 440, 442, 442n, 448, 453, 454, 456, 458, 493, 506–7, 521, 538, 567, 594, 618
Adelstein, Jonathan, 494n
Agassiz, Louis, 418
agnosia, 368, 389, 512–13, 531, 532n, 541, 614, 614n
see also face blindness
Ahrens, Chuck, 64, 64n, 65, 577
AIDS, 538
akinesia, 155, 182, 612
akinetic mutism, 600
Albert Einstein College of Medicine (AECOM), 80–8, 80n, 84, 95, 101, 112, 124, 126, 132, 135, 149, 179, 300n, 308, 316, 365, 322, 523, 683
alcoholism, 262, 391, 419
Aldrich, Richard, 684
alexia, 585
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Carroll), 11, 229, 252n, 297
alienation, in body image, 289, 359
alienness, 46, 106, 136, 182, 217, 237–8, 267, 315, 449, 631
Alpha Omega Alpha, 179
ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), 135, 507
Alvarez, Al, 267, 267n, 269
Alzheimer’s disease, 80n, 322, 344n, 346, 365, 367, 369, 473, 555, 559, 631
see also dementia
Amazon jungle, 36–8, 540n
