Neurologist and author Oliver Sacks died on Sunday, August 30, at age 82. He’d announced in February that he was in the final stages of terminal cancer, and wrote a beautiful essay in the New York Times about what that meant to him:

Over the last few days, I have been able to see my life as from a great altitude, as a sort of landscape, and with a deepening sense of the connection of all its parts.

[Text and photo:  http://blog.ted.com/remembering-oliver-sacks/]

Stop by the main desk in Miller Information Commons to check out a selection of his books