Night Falls Fast
by Kay Redfield Jamison
List Price: $14.00
Pages: 448
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 0375701478
Publisher: Vintage
Kay Redfield Jamison is the daughter of an Air Force officer and was brought
up in the Washington, D.C. area and in Los Angeles. She attended UCLA
as an undergraduate and as a graduate student in psychology, and she joined
the faculty there in 1974. She later founded the UCLA Affective Disorders
Clinic, which became a large teaching and research facility.
Dr. Jamison is now Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. The
textbook on manic-depressive illness that she wrote in association with
Frederick Goodwin was chosen in 1990 as the Most Outstanding Book in Biomedical
Sciences by the Association of American Publishers. She is also the author
of a trade book, Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic
Temperament (1993), and has produced three public television specials
on the subject: one on manic-depressive composers, one on van Gogh, and
one on Lord Byron. The recipient of numerous national and international
scientific awards, Dr. Jamison was a member of the first National Advisory
Council for Human Genome Research, as well as the clinical director for
the Dana Consortium on the Genetic Basis of Manic-Depressive Illness.
She lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband, Dr. Richard Wyatt, a
physician and scientist at the National Institutes of Health.
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