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About Bill Hayes

The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in nonfiction, Bill Hayes is a frequent contributor to the New York Times and the author of five books: Sleep Demons; Five Quarts; The Anatomist; Insomniac City; and How We Live Now: Scenes from the Pandemic.  His writing has also appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Review of Books, the New York Times “T” Style Magazine, BuzzFeed, and The Guardian.

Hayes is also a photographer, with credits including The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and the New York Times.  His portraits of his partner, the late Oliver Sacks, appear in the volume of Dr. Sacks’s suite of final essays Gratitude.  A collection of his street photography, How New York Breaks Your Heart, was recently published by Bloomsbury.  His photographs have been exhibited at the Steven Kasher Gallery and at The Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD), New York City.

Hayes has lectured at NYU, UCSF, and University of Virginia, and has appeared at the Sydney Writers Festival, the 92nd Street Y, the Times of India (Mumbai) LitFest, and other venues. He serves as a co-editor of Dr. Sacks’ posthumously published work.  Hayes, 59, lives in New York City.

Books by Bill Hayes

  • How We Live Now: Scenes from the Pandemic

    May 27, 2020
  • How New York Breaks Your Heart

    February 13, 2018
  • Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me

    February 14, 2017
  • The Anatomist: A True Story of Gray’s Anatomy

    January 6, 2008
  • Sleep Demons: An Insomniac’s Memoir

    March 7, 2018

Recent Essays

  • 12 Encounters with New York City

    September 11, 2019
  • On Editing Oliver Sacks

    April 24, 2019
  • Swimming In Words With Oliver Sacks

    August 29, 2018
  • New Essay in NYT Magazine on 1981-1983

    May 14, 2018
  • Oliver Sacks: A Composer and His Last Work

    November 26, 2017

Recent Photos

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