Jennifer Egan
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Jennifer Egan (born September 6, 1962 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American novelist and short story writer. She was 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.
[edit] External links
- Jennifer Egan's website
- Reviews & Scores for The Keep at Metacritic.com
- Book Review at Boldtype.com
- "The Ghost in the Renovation" at This Old House website
- Reading report from Happy Endings with Peter Behrens and David Rakoff, published at bookishlove.net (Nov 2006)
