The Empathy Exams: Essays

About 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 AtlanticOxford 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.