Oliver Sacks, eminent neurologist and Awakenings author, dies aged 82

Sacks, who also wrote The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat, revealed in February that he was in the late stages of terminal cancer

Oliver Sacks, the eminent neurologist and writer garlanded as the "poet laureate of medicine", has died at his home in New York City. He was 82.

The cause of death was cancer, Kate Edgar, his longtime personal assistant, told the New York Times, which had published an essay by Sacks in February revealing that an earlier melanoma in his eye had spread to his liver and that he was in the late stages of terminal cancer.