Susan R. Barry

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Susan R. Barry

Neuroscientist

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Susan R. Barry is a professor emerita of neuroscience and behavior at Mount Holyoke College. She is the author of Fixing My Gaze and Coming to Our Senses. Her most recent book is Dear Oliver: An Unexpected Friendship with Oliver Sacks. She lives in Massachusetts.

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Want to write a book? Oliver Sacks and Susan Barry began theirs as letters
In "Dear Oliver," neuroscientist Susan Barry describes how her 10-year correspondence with Oliver Sacks unleashed her inner author.
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