Jennifer Egan

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Jennifer Egan at Occupy Wall Street 2011

Jennifer Egan (born September 7, 1962 in Chicago , Illinois ) is an American writer . In 2011 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for A Visit from the Goon Squad . In 2015, this novel was chosen by the BBC's selection of the best 20 novels from 2000 to 2014 as one of the most important works of this century to date. Since 2018 she has been president of the writers' association PEN America .

Life

Egan grew up in San Francisco, studied at the University of Pennsylvania and St. John's College in Cambridge . She has been writing novels, short stories, essays and articles for magazines such as The New Yorker , the New York Times and Harper's Bazaar since 1993 . The novel Look at me was finished before September 11, 2001 , otherwise Egan would have had to rewrite it according to his own assessment.

Her Twitter novel Black Box takes the form of individual tweets , i.e. sections with a maximum of 140 characters, and describes the thoughts of a protagonist who is set on a criminal in the manner of an agent thriller. Black Box first appeared in The New Yorker on June 4-11, 2012.

The writer lives and works in Brooklyn, New York .

Works

Novels and short stories

Essays and articles

  • The Bipolar Puzzle , in: New York Times Magazine, September 14, 2008
  • Wanted: A Few Good Sperm , in: New York Times Magazine, March 19, 2006
  • Love in the Time of No Time , in: New York Times Magazine, November 23, 2004
  • You Don't Know Madonna , in: GQ, December 15, 2002
  • To be Young and Homeless , in: New York Times Magazine, March 24, 2002
  • The Technology , in: New York Times Magazine, September 23, 2001
  • Lonely Gay Teen Seeking Same , in: New York Times Magazine, December 10, 2000
  • Walking Toward Mindfulness , New York Times Magazine, May 7, 2000
  • Power Suffering , in: New York Times Magazine May 16, 1999
  • Why a Priest , in: New York Times Magazine, April 4, 1999
  • Uniforms in the Closet , in: New York Times Magazine, June 28, 1998
  • A Thin Line Between Mother and Daughter , at Salon.com, Nov. 14, 1997
  • The Thin Red Line , in: New York Times Magazine, July 27, 1997
  • James is a Girl , in: New York Times Magazine, Feb. 4, 1996

Film adaptations

Awards

Web links

Interviews

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Epilogue to Look at me , German translation 2012, p. 537
  2. ↑ Jennifer Egan's “The greater part of the world”: Beatings for the late hippies , review by Werner Theurich, Spiegel Online , March 16, 2012, accessed June 20, 2014.
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SURNAME Egan, Jennifer
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DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago