The son of Jacques Robert Leslie and Aleen Leslie, Jacques 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. He has a sister, Diane Leslie.[2]
Personal life
He married Leslie Wernick on June 21, 1980. The couple had a daughter, Sarah Alexandra.[3][4]
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.