We are excited to share the latest international cover of LETTERS by Oliver Sacks, now available in Italian from Adelphi Edizioni. Please share with any of your followers who may wish to read the Italian version. Copies can be purchased here: www.adelphi.it/libro/978884...

As we mark the tenth anniversary of Oliver Sacks’s passing, we’ll be sharing clips of people talking about how Oliver Sacks has impacted them and the world every week for the next few months. This clip of Robert Krulwich is from Ric Burns’ documentary, “Oliver Sacks: His Own Life.”

Oliver Sacks talks about how taking hallucinogens helped him understand his patients.

As we mark the tenth anniversary of Oliver Sacks’s passing over the next few months we will be sharing clips from the archives.

Footage shot by Dempsey Rice who’s working on The Animated Mind of Oliver Sacks.

We’re excited to share that Brilliant Minds is back by popular acclaim! Season two of the @NBC drama based on Dr. Sacks’s life and work, and starring Zachary Quinto, debuts on September 22. (You still have time to catch up on season one streaming on Peacock!) #BrilliantMinds

Here’s a clip from a lecture he gave at Emory University in 2000 in which he talks about the periodic table (and fails to correctly utilize the technology of “transparencies”!)

We recently came across this adorable photo of a young Oliver standing proudly in front of some tulips, somewhere in London. He went on to write: "As a writer, I find gardens essential to the creative process; as a physician, I take my patients to gardens whenever possible."

We're celebrating J.S. Bach’s 340th birthday today with this photo of Oliver Sacks at his piano. He had a lifelong love of Bach's music and in Uncle Tungsten recalls being told that when asked at five years old what his favorite things in the world were, he answered "smoked salmon and Bach."

We love this photo of Oliver Sacks with the great Robin Williams. Robin played Oliver in the 1990 film Awakenings and the two of them became close friends. Williams credited his role in “Awakenings” as a gift, as it allowed him to meet Sacks and delve into the workings of the human brain.

We're excited to share that The Animated Mind of Oliver Sacks is part of The Nonfiction Hotlist, a selection of 24 films that have extraordinary creative potential and that need support to move forward. The feature documentary, directed and produced by Dempsey Rice, was chosen from 640 applications

Today we're celebrating one of the many women who inspired Oliver Sacks, his favorite "Auntie Len," Helena Landau. He describes in Uncle Tungsten and On the Move his deep attachment to his aunt, and how she taught him about botany and the mysteries of the Fibonacci sequence, among other things. 1/4

Today is World Epilepsy Day, a day focused on raising awareness and reducing stigma epilepsy, which affects around 50 million people worldwide.

Oliver Sacks wrote an entire chapter dedicated to epilepsy in “Hallucinations”. Get your copy here: www.oliversacks.com/oliver-sacks...