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Jennifer Egan

(b.1962)

Jennifer Egan was born in Chicago and raised in San Francisco. She attended the University of Pennsylvania and St John's College, Cambridge.

Jennifer Egan is the author of A Visit From The Goon Squad, The Keep, Look at Me, The Invisible Circus, and the story collection Emerald City. Her stories have been published in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, GQ, Zoetrope, All-Story, and Ploughshares, and her non-fiction appears frequently in The New York Times Magazine. She lives with her husband and sons in Brooklyn.

Awards: Pulitzer (2011), NBCC (2010), LA Times (2010) see all

Genres: Literary Fiction, Horror

Series

Visit from the Goon Squad
1. A Visit from the Goon Squad (2010)
2. The Candy House (2022)

Novels

   The Invisible Circus (1994)
   Look at Me (2001)
   The Keep (2006)
   Manhattan Beach (2017)

Collections

Emerald City (1993)

Novellas and Short Stories

Black Box (2012)
Why China? (2016)

Series contributed to

Best American Short Stories
The Best American Short Stories 2014 (2014)

Books containing stories by Jennifer Egan

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2013 (2013)
(Best American Nonrequired Reading)
edited by
Dave Eggers

Life (2013)
Great Short Stories for Women by Women
edited by
Victoria Hislop

Love (2012)
Great Short Stories for Women by Women
edited by
Victoria Hislop

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Awards

	2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction : A Visit from the Goon Squad
	2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction : A Visit from the Goon Squad
	2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction : A Visit from the Goon Squad

Award nominations

	2018 Walter Scott Prize for Best Historical Novel (nominee) : Manhattan Beach
	2012 Dublin Literary Award (nominee) : A Visit from the Goon Squad
	2011 PEN/Faulkner Award (nominee) : A Visit from the Goon Squad
	2001 National Book Award for Fiction (shortlist) : Look at Me

Jennifer Egan recommends

Thorn Tree (2024)
Max Ludington
"Thorn Tree is a riotous, tragic, sublimely written rampage through the lingering dregs of 1960's cults and crimes."

Lucky Dogs (2023)
Helen Schulman
"Part thriller, part Hollywood satire, Lucky Dogs is a brash, sometimes heartbreaking saga in which trauma and self-preservation converge across decades and continents. This is Helen Schulman's best novel yet."

I Have Some Questions for You (2023)
Rebecca Makkai
"Part boarding school drama, part forensic whodunnit, I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS FOR YOU is a true literary mystery -haunting and hard to put down."

The Partition (2022)
Don Lee
"The Partition is flat-out brilliant: a witty, kaleidoscopic tear through questions of race and identity in America today by a writer who has wrought luminous fiction from these issues for years. Don Lee's collection offers vivid, entertaining proof that ethnicity is never straightforward or easy - no matter who we are, or where we stand."

On a Night of a Thousand Stars (2022)
Andrea Yaryura Clark
"With suspense and heartbreak, Andrea Yaryura Clark's debut novel explores the human toll of Argentina's Dirty War, whose atrocities can still upend the most cloistered and prosperous lives. On a Night of a Thousand Stars turns one woman's genealogical quest into a searing indictment of the complicity inherent in cultural silence."

Homeland Elegies (2020)
Ayad Akhtar
"A passionate, wrenching portrayal of Americans exiled into otherness by a post 9/11 world."

The Queen of Tuesday (2020)
Darin Strauss
"Read it!"

Kingdomtide (2020)
Rye Curtis
"Kingdomtide is a truly spectacular first novel: weird, tender, funny, grotesque--above all, deeply, achingly human. It tugged at my thoughts during the days I spent reading it, and has made for itself a permanent place in my memory."

A Tall History of Sugar (2019)
Curdella Forbes
"A Tall History of Sugar is captivating from the very first page. Mythic in dimension yet movingly human in its details, alive with atmospheric richness, it heralds a fascinating new voice in English-language fiction."

The Distance Home (2018)
Paula Saunders
"A deeply involving portrait of the American postwar family: its promises and disruptions . . . surrounded by a rich, shimmering, sensuous landscape."

The Balcony (2018)
Jane Delury
"The Balcony is sweeping, suspenseful, rich with surprises and eerie atmosphere. Jane Delury arrives on the scene of her debut with a sensibility fully formed and a breathtaking array of writerly gifts at her command."

Woman No. 17 (2017)
Edan Lepucki
"In her arresting debut novel, Edan Lepucki conjures a lush, intricate, deeply disturbing vision of the future, then masterfully exploits its dramatic possibilities."

Modern Manners For Your Inner Demons (2017)
Tara Laskowski
"A bold, riveting mash-up of Hitchcockian suspense and campfire-tale chills."

The Girls (2016)
Emma Cline
"Emma Cline’s first novel positively hums with fresh, startling, luminous prose. The Girls announces the arrival of a thrilling new voice in American fiction."

The Dakota Winters (2016)
Tom Barbash
"Conjures a gritty, populous, affectionate portrait of 1979 New York City."

The Next Right Thing (2012)
Dan Barden
"Everything you could hope for from a novel: suspenseful, hilarious, angry - above all, wildly original."

Night Swim (2011)
Jessica Keener
"This gripping first novel announces the arrival of a strong, distinct and fully evolved new voice."

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