Letters, p.87
Letters, page 87
Wilmer, Clive, 99n, 379n
Wilmers, Mary-Kay, 232n, 395, 399
Wilson, Edmund, 63, 63n
Wilson, Edward O., 628, 631, 656
Wilson, Frank, 494, 633
Wilson, Kinnier, 260n
Wiltshire, Stephen, 460–1, 460n, 481, 481n, 482, 489, 503, 517
Winnicott, D. W., 350n, 452, 453, 581
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 143, 200, 224n, 252n, 256, 389n, 482, 627
witzelsucht, 453
Wolf, Abner, 81
Wolf (OS middle name as alter ego), 14, 99n, 252, 468
wolfboy phantasies, 468
Wollheim, Richard, 408, 408n
Wolpert, Lewis, 561
words, favorite, 533
World Trade Center attacks, 565
World War II, effects on Sacks family, 114, 114n
wrestling match, 65–6
Wright, Faine, 677, 682
Y
Yahr, Melvin, 166, 166n
Yanni, Carla, 652
YMCA, 14
Yosemite, 19
Younes, Nick, 599, 626, 628n, 658
Young, J. Z., 669
Z
Zaillian, Steven, 477n
Zeki, Semir, 463, 463n, 687
Zelenka, Jan Dismas, 349
Zihl, Josef, 438–9, 438n, 591
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Illustration Credits
Unless otherwise specified, all photographs are from the collection of the Oliver Sacks Foundation.
The photograph of Thom Gunn, Hyde Park, London, 1959, is by Rollie McKenna. © The Rosalie Thorne McKenna Foundation, courtesy Center for Creative Photography, the University of Arizona Foundation.
The photograph of Robert Rodman is from the collection of Ingrid Rodman-Holmes and used with her kind permission.
The photograph of Picador Books authors is by Julian Calder, used by permission.
The photograph of Marsha Ivins in microgravity is courtesy of NASA.
The photograph of OS with Jonathan Miller, as well as the photograph of OS with umbrella, are by Tom Miller. © Tom Miller, used by permission.
A Note About the Author
Dr. Oliver Sacks, referred to by The New York Times as “the poet laureate of medicine,” spent more than fifty years working as a neurologist and writing books about the neurological predicaments and conditions of his patients, including Musicophilia, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, and Awakenings. Over the years, he received many awards, including honors from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Royal College of Physicians. He was a frequent contributor to The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, and the London Review of Books. His work has been translated into dozens of languages and has inspired generations of physicians, artists, and readers around the world.
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A Note About the Editor
For more than three decades, Kate Edgar worked with Dr. Sacks as editor, researcher, assistant, and friend. She is executive director of the Oliver Sacks Foundation, which seeks to preserve and extend narrative medicine through the works of Sacks and others, and to support the destigmatization of diverse mental and neurological conditions.
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