Susan R. Barry is a professor emerita of neuroscience and behavior at Mount Holyoke College. She is the author of Fixing My Gaze, named a best book of the year by Amazon and Library Journal, and Coming to Our Senses. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Big Think, and on Science Friday, Fresh Air, and Morning Edition. She lives in Massachusetts. Oliver Sacks was a physician, a bestselling author, and a professor of neurology at the NYU School of Medicine. The New York Times referred to him as "the poet laureate of medicine." As an author, he is best known for his collections of neurological case histories, including The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, and An Anthropologist on Mars. Dr. Sacks was a frequent contributor to The New Yorker and the New York Review of Books.
In Dear Oliver, neuroscientist Susan Barry describes how her
10-year correspondence with Oliver Sacks unleashed her inner
author.-- "Big Think"
A Main Selection of the Library of Science Book Club
One of The Telegraph's 10 essential new books to read in 2024.
"Barry conveys the deep warmth and compassion these late-in-life
confidants offered each other--and even includes images of Sacks's
type-written letters, complete with cross-outs and handwritten
additions--making the book's later sections, which document how
Sacks's cancer spread and became terminal, especially poignant. It
adds up to a deeply stirring ode to life-altering connections that
arrive when they're least expected.-- "Publishers Weekly, starred
review"
Dear Oliver vividly captures how Barry and Sacks explored the mind
through years of letters. Their curiosity, compassion, friendship,
and courage at life's challenges are woven together in an inspiring
tapestry of scientific and personal discovery.--Aniruddh Patel,
PhD, professor of psychology, Tufts University, and author of
Music, Language, and the Brain
Dear Oliver is a must-read for all the people who loved Oliver
Sacks's books. The ending made me cry.--Temple Grandin, bestselling
author of Visual Thinking and Thinking in Pictures
A testament to the genius of Oliver Sacks and the special
friendship he shared with Susan Barry, Dear Oliver is a deep dive
into an emotionally rich world. Oliver Sacks was extraordinary in
his curiosity and sensitivity, but, as his letters show, his
brilliance was his ability to marry science, humanity, humor, and
humility.--Orrin Devinsky, MD, professor of neurology and
neuroscience, NYU Grossman School of Medicine
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