Jennifer Egan

Jennifer Egan

Jennifer Egan (born September 6, 1962) is an American novelist and short story writer. She was born in Chicago and raised in San Francisco. She graduated from San Francisco University High School before attending the University of Pennsylvania and St John's College, Cambridge.

She is the author of three novels, The Keep, The Invisible Circus, and Look at Me, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, and a short story collection, Emerald City. The Keep (2006), her most recent book, received favorable reviews from publications including The New York Times Book Review [1]. She has published short fiction in The New Yorker, Harper's, Zoetrope All-Story, and Ploughshares, among others, and her journalism appears frequently in The New York Times Magazine.

She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship and was recently a fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and sons.