# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jennifer-egan
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:07:56.529Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/jennifer-egan"
name: "Jennifer Egan"
slug: "jennifer-egan"
description: "Jennifer Egan is an American novelist and short-story writer. Her novel, A Visit from the Goon Squad, won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. From 2018 to 2020, she served as the president of PEN America."
tagline: "American novelist, short story writer"
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gender: "female"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1962-09-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump