![]() Born and raised in Texas, educated at Williams College, Jamie James worked as a freelance writer in New York for more than twenty years, with regular posts as critic at The New Yorker and The Times of London. In 1999 he moved to Indonesia to concentrate on writing books. He is the author of fiction, biography, and long-form criticism. He and his partner own and operate restaurants in Bali and Lombok. |
![]() Zadie Smith in Harper’s: “The spectacle of reading someone write beautifully about something he finds, well, beautiful.” |
“Jamie James is a very interesting writer at every moment” — Edmund White