Margolin, Leslie

Leslie Margolin has been teaching counseling, sexuality, and writing at The University of Iowa for over twenty-five years. Before that he was a social worker in psychiatric hospitals, including Bellevue in New York, where he saw, as a routine part of his day, the poorest and most unhappy people in America. He entered academia in part as a way of escaping these realities, which is probably why he began writing fiction. His books include Goodness Personified (1994), Under the Cover of Kindness (1997), Murderess! (1999), Damaged (2002), and The Adulteress (2006). The latter received a starred rev...