Jacques Leslie

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]

He married Leslie Wernick Leslie on June 21, 1980. Leslie had two children from a previous marriage, Tristan and Kadie and the couple had a daughter, Sarah.^[3][4]

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.

• 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.