by Oliver Sacks
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PERMISSIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material:
Basic Books: Excerpts from The Invention of Memory by Israel Rosenfield, copyright © 1998 by Israel Rosenfield. Reprinted by permission of Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, administered by Copyright Clearance Center.
Pantheon Books: Excerpts from Touching the Rock by John Hull, copyright © 1990 by John M. Hull. Reprinted by permission of Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc.
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Oliver Sacks was born in London in 1933, into a family of physicians, scientists, and teachers; and educated at the Queen’s College, Oxford. In 1960 he moved to California for his medical residency, and he has been practicing neurology in New York City since 1965. He is a professor of neurology and psychiatry at Columbia University, as well as the first Columbia University Artist.
Dr. Sacks is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and The New Yorker. He is a member of the American Fern Society and the New York Mineralogical Club, and is a passionate swimmer. His books have been translated into more than thirty languages.
For more information on Dr. Sacks’s work, please visit www.oliversacks.com.