Tucson Festival of Books

Jonathan Gleason (He / Him)


Jonathan Gleason is author of "Field Guide to Falling Ill," a collection of essays exploring the human lives behind the corporate, legal and cultural practices of medicine. It has been described as a layered, reflective, and unusually poised debut and was the inaugural winner of the Yale Nonfiction Book Prize. A 2024 Granum Foundation finalist, Gleason's work has appeared in the Best American Essays, The Sun magazine, New England Review, and Kenyon Review. He teaches creative writing at the University of Chicago.

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Awards: Yale Nonfiction Book Prize

Communities: LGBTQ+


Book:
Field Guide to Falling Ill
Essays
Science / Medicine / Technology
Yale University Press
January 2026
ISBN 9780300282948
256 pages