Leslie Jamison

Leslie Jamison grew up in Los Angeles. Educated at Harvard College and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, she has also worked as an innkeeper in California, a schoolteacher in Nicaragua, and an office temp in Manhattan. She is the NewYork Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams , as well as a novel, The Gin Closet . Her work has appeared in Harper's , The Atlantic, Oxford American , Virginia Quarterly Review , and the New York Times Magazine, where she is a contributing...See more

Leslie Jamison grew up in Los Angeles. Educated at Harvard College and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, she has also worked as an innkeeper in California, a schoolteacher in Nicaragua, and an office temp in Manhattan. She is the NewYork Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams , as well as a novel, The Gin Closet . Her work has appeared in Harper's , The Atlantic, Oxford American , Virginia Quarterly Review , and the New York Times Magazine, where she is a contributing writer. She directs the graduate nonfiction program at Columbia University. See less