Exuberance: The Passion for Life (54 page)

Kay Redfield Jamison is Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Honorary Professor of English at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. She is the author of the national best-sellers
An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness, Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide
, and
Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament
. She is the coauthor of the standard medical text on manic-depressive illness and author or coauthor of more than a hundred scientific papers about mood disorders, creativity, and psychopharmacology. Dr. Jamison, the recipient of numerous national and international scientific awards, was distinguished lecturer at Harvard University in 2002 and the Litchfield lecturer at the University of Oxford in 2003. She is a John P. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellow.