Even his dearest friends, and most avid readers of the books and stories that made him famous, might not ever have known that Dr.
Oliver Sacks was gay until he wrote about it in his 2015 memoir, On the Move: A Life, published just before he died at the age of 82.
Sacks hadn’t really discussed — and was thus never defined by — his sexuality, any more than he was defined entirely by his groundbreaking work with patients suffering encephalitis lethargica, as covered in his best-selling book Awakenings.Sacks discusses being gay, and nearly every other aspect of his extraordinary life, with candor, humor, and characteristic insight in the warmly engaging documentary Oliver Sacks: His Own Life, directed by Emmy-winning documentarian Ric Burns.
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