Jacques Leslie is an author and journalist. He was a war correspondent for the Los Angeles Times during the Vietnam war.[1] His wife's name is Leslie and, therefore, goes by the name of Leslie Leslie.[2]

Education

Leslie obtained his B.A. in American Studies from Yale University and graduated with departmental honors. He was a Yale-China fellow from 1968–70 and was a tutor in English at Chinese University of Hong Kong.[3]

Awards and honors

Leslie has won a number of awards for his work which include:

  • Winner, 2006 Drunken Boat Panliterary Award in Nonfiction for "Lisa's Shoe."
  • Finalist, 2006 Northern California Book Award in Nonfiction for Deep Water.
  • Deep Water named one of the top science books of 2005 by Discover Magazine.
  • Winner, 2002 J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award for Deep Water.
  • Finalist, 2001 John B. Oakes Award in Distinguished Environmental Journalism, for "Running Dry: What Happens When the World No Longer Has Enough Freshwater?" published in Harper's Magazine, July 2000.
  • Recipient, Marin (California) Arts Council grant for Creative Nonfiction, 2003 and 1999.
  • The Mark named "one of the top censored books of 1995" by the 1996 Project Censored Yearbook.
  • Pulitzer Prize nomination, Los Angeles Times, for foreign correspondence (India), 1975.
  • Winner, Sigma Delta Chi Distinguished Service Award for best newspaper foreign correspondence, 1973.
  • Winner, Overseas Press Club citation, 1973, "for incisive, consistently well-researched coverage of Vietnam and the Vietcong."
  • Pulitzer Prize Nomination, Los Angeles Times, for foreign correspondence (Vietnam), 1973.

Books

  • Deep Water: The Epic Struggle Over Dams, Displaced People, and the Environment, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, August 2005.
  • The Mark: A War Correspondent's Memoir of Vietnam and Cambodia, published by Four Walls Eight Windows in Spring, 1995.

Magazines

His work has been published in a number of magazines including: The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Magazine, Mother Jones, Orion, Wired, OnEarth, Newsweek, Washington Monthly, Columbia Journalism Review, Reader's Digest, among many others.

References

  1. ↑ Greg McLaughlin (20 March 2002), The war correspondent, p. 179, ISBN 9780745314440
  2. ↑ Jacques Leslie (1993), "Couplings", Newsweek, 121: 344
  3. ↑ "Jacques Leslie: Bio". Jacques Leslie. Retrieved 10 August 2013.


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