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Also Known As Oliver Wolf Sacks
Born July 9, 1933 • London • England
Died August 30, 2015 (aged 82) • New York City • New York
Notable Works “A Leg to Stand On” • “An Anthropologist on Mars” • “Awakenings” • “Hallucinations” • “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat” • “The Mind’s Eye” • “The River of Consciousness”

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