Leslie Jamison

"Leslie Jamison stitches together the intellectual and the emotional with the finesse of a crackerjack surgeon." (NPR) Brilliant, profound and poetic, writer Leslie Jamison skyrocketed to national fame with her New York Times bestseller, the essay collection The Empathy Exams. Winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize, it's a exploration of the possibilities, texture, and limits of compassion. It was named one of the best books of the year by NPR, The New York Times, and Publishers Weekly. The Gin Closet, Jamison's debut novel, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times' First Fiction Award and one of The San Francisco Chronicle’s best books of the year. Booklist called the novel “hauntingly beautiful.” Jamison's articles, essays and fiction have appeared in many publications including Harper’s, The Believer, Oxford American, Tin House, and Virginia Quarterly Review. A graduate of Harvard College and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she has taught courses in fiction and nonfiction at Wesleyan University, Yale University, and the New York University School of Journalism. (strongstuff)… (mer)