Leslie Jamison

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Leslie Jamison (2014)

Leslie Jamison (born 1983 in Washington, DC ) is an American author .

Life

Leslie Jamison is from Los Angeles , her father is the economist Dean Jamison and her aunt is the psychologist Kay Redfield Jamison . She studied at Harvard University , attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop and has been doing her PhD at Yale University since 2016 . For a while she worked as a "simulator for medical training". She lives in New York .

Jamison published her first novel The gin closet in 2010 . She became known in the USA in 2014 with her essay volume The empathy exams , which made it onto the New York Times bestseller list . She sees herself as a writer and is not a psychologist, even if she consulted doctors, medical students and the psychologist Paul Bloom for her experience reports on empathy . Her credo homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto (I am human, nothing human is alien to me) has been tattooed on her forearm .

Works

  • The Gin Closet: a novel . New York: Free Press, 2010
    • The gin trailer . Novel. Translation of Kirsten Riesselmann. Hanser Berlin, 2019
  • The Empathy Exams: Essays . Minneapolis, MN: Graywolf Press, 2014
    • The empathy tests. About empathy and the suffering of others . Essays. Translation of Kirsten Riesselmann. Hanser Berlin, 2015
  • The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath . Little, Brown, 2018
    • The clarity. Alcohol, intoxication, and the stories of recovery . Translation of Kirsten Riesselmann. Hanser Berlin, 2018
  • Make It Scream, Make It Burn: Essays . New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2019

literature

  • Ruth Fühner: Open hearts . Review. In: Frankfurter Rundschau, April 2, 2016, p. 37

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Fanny Jiménez: Empathy can be toxic , Interview, in: Literarisches Welt , November 14, 2015, p. 3
  2. ↑ Christopher Schmidt : Hautnah , review, in: Süddeutsche Zeitung , December 5, 2015, p. 20
personal data
SURNAME Jamison, Leslie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American author
DATE OF BIRTH 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Washington, DC