Everything in Its Place

Life bursts through all of Oliver Sacks’s writing. He was and will remain a brilliant singularity * The New York Times Book Review *Magical … [Everything in Its Place] showcases the neurologist’s infinitely curious mind * People Magazine *Extraordinarily touching – Simon Callow * The New York Review of Books *Sacks further secures his legacy with this most recent collection of his work … The Shakespeare of science writing might suffice, but Sacks ultimately defies comparison to bygone or even contemporary authors * Scientist *Beautifully crafted and profound * The New York Journal of Books *

Oliver Sacks was born in 1933 in London and was educated at the Queen’s College, Oxford. He completed his medical training at San Francisco’s Mount Zion Hospital and at UCLA before moving to New York, where he soon encountered the patients about whom he would write in his book Awakenings.

Dr Sacks spent almost fifty years working as a neurologist and wrote many books, including The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Musicophilia and Hallucinations, about the strange neurological predicaments and conditions of his patients. The New York Times referred to him as ‘the poet laureate of medicine’, and over the years he received many awards, including honours from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Royal College of Physicians. In 2008, he was appointed Commander of the British Empire. His memoir, On the Move, was published shortly before his death in August 2015.