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About Jennifer Egan
American novelist and short-story writer
Jennifer Egan is an American novelist and short-story writer. She is best known for her fiction, especially the novel A Visit from the Goon Squad, which won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. From 2018 to 2020, Egan served as president of PEN America. Her reputation rests on fiction and on work that has earned major literary recognition.
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- “I learned you have to move fast, writing futuristic satire in America: Before you know it, you're a realist!”Jennifer Egan
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- “It's one thing to be writing in South or Latin America, where, except for Brazil, every country, however smal…”Michael Korda
- “I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.”Stephen Fry
- “I don't know Bengali perfectly. I don't know how to write it or even read it. I have an accent, I speak witho…”Jhumpa Lahiri
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- “He read while he walked. He read while he ate. The other librarians suspected he somehow read while he slept,…”Laini Taylor
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Books by Jennifer Egan
A Visit from the Goon Squad
2010
Manhattan Beach
2017
The Invisible Circus
1994
The Candy House
2022
The Keep
2006