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Leslie Jamison

Author

Bio

Leslie Jamison is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Recovering and The Empathy Exams, and the novel The Gin Closet. She is a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine, and her work has appeared in publications including the Atlantic, Harper's, the New York Times Book Review, the Oxford American, and the Virginia Quarterly Review. She directs the graduate nonfiction program at Columbia University and lives in Brooklyn with her family.

Leslie Jamison Books

Peggy book cover

Peggy

Rebecca Godfrey
Splinters book cover

Splinters

Leslie Jamison
Letter to a Stranger book cover

Letter to a Stranger

Colleen Kinder
Make It Scream, Make It Burn book cover

Make It Scream, Make It Burn

Leslie Jamison
Blueschild Baby book cover

Blueschild Baby

George Cain
The Recovering book cover

The Recovering

Leslie Jamison
The Best American Essays 2017 book cover

The Best American Essays 2017

Leslie Jamison
Waveform book cover

Waveform

Marcia Aldrich
Specimen Days and Collect book cover

Specimen Days and Collect

Walt Whitman
The Empathy Exams book cover

The Empathy Exams

Leslie Jamison
The Gin Closet book cover

The Gin Closet

Leslie Jamison
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