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Best-selling author Sacks to speak Oct. 30
By Mary Kastens Neurologist and best-selling author Oliver Sacks will deliver the CHIMES Lecture at noon Oct. 30 in Graham Chapel as part of the University’s Assembly Series. With such best-selling books as The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, An Anthropologist on Mars and Awakenings (which was made into a movie starring Robin Williams and Robert De Niro), Sacks is one of the world’s most captivating storytellers.
As a physician and a writer, Sacks is concerned above all with the link between body and mind, and the ways in which the whole person adapts to different neurological conditions. Sacks is perhaps best known for his 1985 collection of case histories from the far borderlands of neurological experience, The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat. In the fall of 2001, Sacks released his memoir, Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood. It is a look back on Sacks’ childhood in wartime London, revealing his early love of chemistry as the source of his lifelong scientific curiosity. His Assembly Series talk will focus on recollections of his rich and fascinating life. Sacks was born in London and earned a medical degree in 1958 from Oxford University. In the early 1960s, he moved to the United States and completed his residency in neurology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Since 1965, he has lived in New York, where he is clinical professor of neurology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He is also a member of the faculty at New York University Medical Center and serves as a consultant to the Little Sisters of the Poor and Beth Abraham Hospital. Although the Assembly Series lecture is free and open to the public, seating will be limited. Doors open at 11 a.m. For more information, call 935-4620 or visit the Assembly Series Web site at wupa.wustl.edu/assembly. |
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