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Leslie Epstein (May 4, 1938 – May 18, 2025) was an American educator, essayist and novelist.
Epstein was born on May 4, 1938, to an American Jewish family in Los Angeles and grew up in Hollywood. His father Philip and uncle Julius were both noted screenwriters. Together, they won an Academy Award for the celebrated 1942 film Casablanca.
Epstein attended the Webb School of California, and went to Yale University for his bachelor’s in English in 1960 and later returned for an earned Doctor of Fine Arts in playwriting from the Yale School of Drama in 1967. In 1960 he matriculated at Merton College, Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship; he attained a Diploma in Social Anthropology in 1962. He then returned to the United States and received a master’s in theatre arts from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1963. At the time of his death, he was Professor of English and Director of the Creative Writing Program at Boston University, where he joined the faculty in 1978.
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