The New York Public Library takes over the Oliver Sacks archive

The famous neurologist’s extensive collection includes letters, notebooks, drafts and other written findings.

The New York Times described the famous author and sociologist Oliver Sacks as “a man who could not stop writing. ” Nearly a decade after his death at age 82, the New York Public Library has acquired Sachs’ entire written holdings. Bags is seen more than ever as the epitome of a learned, patient and truly compassionate doctor who fought against modern medicine that is focused on technology and is characterized by in films and series such as the new drama “Brilliant Minds” on the US channel NBC.

Sacks’ personal archive is a treasure trove, previously hard to miss, for exploring subjects as diverse as “aging, amnesia, color, deafness, dreams, ferns, Freud, hallucinations, neural Darwinism, organ- iconic body, photography, preud. – History of Columbia, swimming, and twins,” according to a partial listing from his own website. The archive contains approximately 110 linear meters of material, including drafts for his 16 books, nearly 35,000 letters, approximately 600 notebooks and diaries, approximately 7,000 photographs dating back to his weightlifting days and boxes full of research files. It covers his entire life, from his childhood in London as the distinguished son of two doctors to his diagnosis of terminal cancer. His extensive notes and drafts were featured in the 2019 documentary “Oliver Sacks: His Own Life,” where he appeared with a shirt pocket full of different colored pens.

Write bags on every material imaginable, including tablecloths, napkins and your own hands. He spent several hours every day writing letters and kept copies of the letters he had from a young age. The archive also contains letters from famous people such as Susan Sontag, Francis Crick, Jane Goodall and WH Auden, who reviewed his first book, “Migraine,” for The New York Review of Books in 1971, when which Sacks was a little known doctor. in a Bronx hospital was (Connection).