# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jonathan-lethem
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:01:54.597Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/jonathan-lethem"
name: "Jonathan Lethem"
slug: "jonathan-lethem"
description: "Jonathan Allen Lethem is an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. His first novel, Gun, with Occasional Music, a genre work that mixed elements of science fiction and detective fiction, was published in 1994. In 1999, Lethem published Motherless Brooklyn, a National Book Critics Circle Award-winning novel that achieved mainstream success. In 2003, he published The Fortress of Solitude, which became a New York Times Best Seller. In 2005, he received a MacArthur Fellowship. Since 2011, he has taught creative writing at Pomona College. In 2025, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in fiction, a prestigious honor recognizing exceptional artists and scholars in the arts and humanities."
tagline: "American novelist, essayist, short story writer, Roy E. Disney Chair in Creative Writing, Pomona College"
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birthDate: "1964-02-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump