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Jennifer Egan

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American novelist, short story writer

United StatesWritersBorn 1962 · age 64
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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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Jennifer Egan
said · 2011
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She and Coz were collaborators, writing a story whose end had already been determined: she would get well

Chapter 1, Page 6

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Jennifer Egan
said · 2011
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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?

Chapter 1, Page 14

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Jennifer Egan
said · 2011
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All her excitement had seeped away, leaving behind a terrible sadness, an emptiness that felt violent, as if she'd been gouged

Chap. 1, p. 17

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2011Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
2010National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction
1996Guggenheim Fellowship
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship

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United States
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Writers
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Dates
Born 1962 · age 64
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