Leslie Jamison is an American novel

Novel

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ist. Her work has been published in Best New American Voices 2008, A Public Space

A Public Space

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, and Black Warrior Review

Black Warrior Review

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. Originally from Los Angeles, she attended Harvard University

Harvard University

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 and the Iowa Writers' Workshop

Iowa Writers' Workshop

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, and is currently finishing a Ph.D. in English literature at Yale

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. Her father is the economist and global health researcher Dean Jamison

Dean Jamison

Dean Jamison is an economist and global health researcher. He is a professor of global health at the University of Washington in Seattle and is on the faculty at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation . He has also been on the faculty at UCLA, Harvard, University of California, San...

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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

San Francisco Chronicle

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, Vogue

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, and Publishers Weekly

Publishers Weekly

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