Occupation novelist, essayist Role Novelist Name Leslie Jamison | Genre Fiction Nationality United States Spouse Charles Bock | |
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Books The Empathy Exams: Essays, The Gin Closet Education Harvard University, University of Iowa | ||
Leslie jamison the empathy exams
Leslie Jamison (born ca. 1983) is an American novelist and essayist. Her work has been published in Best New American Voices 2008, A Public Space, and Black Warrior Review. Originally from Los Angeles, she attended Harvard University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and undertook a Ph.D. in English literature at Yale. Her father is the economist and global health researcher Dean Jamison. Her aunt is clinical psychologist and writer Kay Redfield Jamison.
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Jamison's first novel, The Gin Closet, was published by Free Press in 2010. It received positive reviews by the San Francisco Chronicle, Vogue, and Publishers Weekly.
Jamison's second book, The Empathy Exams, an essay collection published by Graywolf Press, debuted in April 2014 at no. 11 on the New York Times bestseller list. The book received wide acclaim from critics, with The New York Times writer Olivia Lang saying, "It’s hard to imagine a stronger, more thoughtful voice emerging this year."
Leslie jamison the empathy exams
