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Dan Schlesinger is an American lawyer and artist who was a former long-distance running athlete. He set the record half-marathon time for the Maccabiah Games. He was the third place finisher at the 1982 New York City Marathon and was in the top 10 finishers at the 1986 Boston Marathon. In the 1987 Grandma's Marathon run from Two Harbors, Minnesota to Duluth, Schlesinger won first prize. More recently, his oil paintings have become know to collectors around the world and he was chosen to be the illustrator for the Japanese edition of the Harry Potter book series.

Professional running career
Schlesinger ran for Yale University and set a record time in the six-mile run (which was previously held by Frank Shorter.

In 1988, he was selected to be on the American team to compete at the ASICS Ekiden along with Ross Donoghue, Jim Flynn, Charlie Bevier, and Bill Krohn.

Personal life
Schlesinger was born in Freeport, New York. His father, a textile personnel recruiter, moved the family to Raleigh, North Carolina. He enrolled at Yale University, then received a Marshall Scholarship to Oxford University, where he studied for three years. His skills for language (and fluency in Japanese, Korean and English) took him to Seoul, South Korea, where he worked translating legal documents. He was there for two years before returning to the United States to enter Harvard Law School.