Kay Redfield Jamison, author portrait
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Kay Redfield Jamison

KAY REDFIELD JAMISON is the Dalio Professor in Mood Disorders and a professor of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, as well as an honorary professor of English at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. She is the coauthor of the standard medical text on bipolar disorder and author of An Unquiet Mind, Night Falls Fast, Exuberance, and Touched with Fire. Her most recent book, Robert Lowell: Setting the River on Fire, was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. Dr. Jamison is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. She is a recipient of the Lewis Thomas Prize, the Sarnat Prize from the National Academy of Medicine, and a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship.
Fires in the Dark
Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire
An Unquiet Mind

Kay Redfield Jamison (author of ROBERT LOWELL) | What I'm Reading<br/>papercuts

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Fires in the Dark
Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire
An Unquiet Mind

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Kay Redfield Jamison (author of ROBERT LOWELL) | What I'm Reading
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