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Hayes' experiences in New York and his six-year relationship with Sacks are the subject of his book Insomniac City. [6] Hayes has described his adult life as "colored by death" – the deaths he dealt with in his AIDS Foundation work, the sudden death of his longtime partner in San Francisco, and later the death of his partner Oliver Sacks. [8]
Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me (also subtitled New York, Oliver Sacks, and Me) is a 2017 memoir by writer and photographer Bill Hayes, primarily recounting his life in New York City and his romantic relationship with neurologist and writer Oliver Sacks over the last seven years of Sacks' life. [1]
Oliver Wolf Sacks (9 July 1933 – 30 August 2015) was a British neurologist, naturalist, historian of science, and writer. [2] Born in London, Sacks received his medical degree in 1958 from The Queen's College, Oxford, before moving to the United States, where he spent most of his career.
Dr. Oliver Sacks died Sunday at his home in New York City, his assistant, Kate Edgar, said.
By ISABELLE CHAPMAN Oliver Sacks, the beloved author and world-famous neurologist, has announced that he has terminal liver cancer and just months to live, according to a op-ed he wrote for the ...
The theater and TV veteran had a professional career that began in the 1950s — and also topped the Billboard charts with 'The Ballad of Davy Crockett.'
William "Billy" Hayes (born April 3, 1947) is an American writer, actor, film director and convicted drug smuggler. He is best known for his autobiographical book Midnight Express about his experiences in and escape from a Turkish prison, after being convicted of smuggling hashish .
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales is a 1985 non-fiction book by neurologist Oliver Sacks describing the case histories of some of his patients. Sacks chose the title of the book from the case study of one of his patients who has visual agnosia , [ 1 ] a neurological condition that leaves him unable to recognize ...