The first is about his 1973 book "Awakenings" which established him as a writer. We're going to hear excerpts of two of those interviews today. The tumor was removed, but he learned in February that the cancer had spread to his liver and he didn't have long to live. Late in life he had visual distortions and hallucinations caused by a brain tumor behind his right eye. He described himself as having face blindness, an inability to recognize people by their faces. Sacks also drew on observations of his own mind and body and some of the unusual conditions he lived with. A case study of a man who mistook his wife for a hat became the title story of one of his best-known books. His beautifully written books examine the mysteries of perception, memory and consciousness by drawing on his observations of patients with unusual neurological disorders and brain injuries that produced strange distortions. Sacks had been a physician and a professor of neurology at the New York University School of Medicine. Today we remember Oliver Sacks, the neurologist and best-selling author.
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