Jennifer Egan

American novelist, short story writer · United States · On the map · Writers · Born 1962 · age 64

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.

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2011“She and Coz were collaborators, writing a story whose end had already been determined: she would get well”In their wordsChapter 1, Page 6Read the whole statement

“All her excitement had seeped away, leaving behind a terrible sadness, an emptiness that felt violent, as if she'd been gouged”In their wordsChap. 1, p. 17Read the whole statement

“I can't tell if [Alice’s] actually real, or if she's stopped caring if she's real or not. Or is not caring what makes a person real.”In their wordsChapter 3Read the whole statement

“Women are cunts," his father says. "That's why.”"They are not - " He can't make himself repeat the word."They are," Lou says tightly.”In their wordsChapter 4Read the whole statement

“I looked down at the city. Its extravagance felt wasteful, like gushing oil or some other precious thing Bennie was hoarding for himself, using it up so no one else could get any.”In their wordsChapter 6Read the whole statement

“Entering Lulu's bedroom, Dolly felt like Dorothy waking up in Oz: everything was in color. A pink shade encircled the overhead lamp. Pink gauzy fabric hung from the ceiling.”In their wordsChapter 8Read the whole statement

Pulitzer Prize for FictionAward2010National Book Critics Circle Award for FictionAward1996Guggenheim FellowshipAward1962Born7 September 1962

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Egan at LiteratureXchange Festival in Aarhus (Denmark 2019)

Egan at the 2010 Brooklyn Book Festival

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It jarred Sasha to think of herself as a glint in the hazy memories that Alex would struggle to organize a year or two from now: Where was that place with the bathtub?
2011 · Chapter 1, Page 14, Own words
Bennie's assistant, Sasha, brought him coffee: cream and two sugars.
2011 · Chapter 2, Own words
Every night, my mother ticks off another day I've been clean. It's more than a year, my longest yet. "Jocelyn, You've got so much life in front of you," she says.
2011 · Chapter 5, Own words