Jennifer Egan

Quick Facts

Full Name	Jennifer Egan
Occupation	Novelist
Date Of Birth	Sep 7, 1962(1962-09-07)
Age	62
Birthplace	Illinois
Country	United States
Birth City	Illinois
Horoscope	Virgo

Jennifer Egan Biography

Jennifer Egan is one of the most popular and richest Novelist who was born on September 7, 1962 in Illinois, Illinois, United States. An American novelist and short story writer, she is best known for A Visit from the Goon Squad, a 2010 novel that was later adapted into an HBO series.

She dated Steven Jobs in college; he once helped her set up a Macintosh computer in her dormitory room.

Egan received a Thouron Award in 1986, was the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1996. In 2002 she wrote a cover story on homeless children that received the Carroll Kowal Journalism Award. She was a fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library in 2004–2005. Her 2008 story on bipolar children won an Outstanding Media Award from the National Alliance on Mental Illness. In 2011 she was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.

Egan was born in Chicago as fourth-generation Irish but grew up in San Francisco. After graduating from Lowell High School, she majored in English literature at the University of Pennsylvania. While an undergraduate, Egan dated Steve Jobs, who installed a Macintosh computer in her bedroom. After graduating, Egan spent two years at St John’s College, Cambridge, supported by a Thouron Award, where she earned an M.A. She came to New York in 1987 and worked an array of jobs while learning to write, such as catering at the World Trade Center. She has published short fiction in The New Yorker, Harper’s, Zoetrope: All-Story, and Ploughshares, among other periodicals, and her journalism appears frequently in The New York Times Magazine. Egan’s first novel, The Invisible Circus, was released in 1995 and adapted into a film of the same name released in 2001. She has published one short story collection and four novels, among which Look at Me was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2001.

She was born in Chicago and raised in San Francisco. She married David Herskovits.

Jennifer Egan Net Worth

Jennifer Egan is one of the richest Novelist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jennifer Egan 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She majored in English literature at the University of Pennsylvania.

A Visit from the Goon Squad won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2011.

Jennifer Egan (born September 7, 1962) is an American novelist and short story writer. Egan’s novel A Visit from the Goon Squad won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. As of February 28, 2018, she is the President of the PEN America Center. Egan lives in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn with her husband and two sons.

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Who is Jennifer Egan Dating?

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Jennifer Ranked on the list of most popular Novelist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Jennifer Egan celebrates birthday on September 7 of every year.

What is Jennifer Egan known for?

Jennifer Egan is the author of several novels and a short story collection. Her 2017 novel, Manhattan Beach, a New York Times bestseller, was awarded the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and was chosen as New York City’s One Book One New York read.

What is the literary works of Jennifer Egan?

Jennifer Egan
Occupation| Novelist
Alma mater| University of Pennsylvania (BA) Cambridge University (MA)
Genre| Fiction novel short story
Notable works| A Visit from the Goon Squad (2010) Manhattan Beach (2017)

Does Jennifer Egan have kids?

In that time, Egan has published two other books, “The Keep” and “A Visit from the Goon Squad,” which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, in 2011. Her sons, Manu and Raoul , have grown from toddlers to teen-agers.

Does Jennifer Egan teach?

The Pulitzer-Prize winning author returns to her alma mater to teach a course on English literature. Novelist and Penn alum Jennifer Egan taught a literature course on modern fiction this semester as an artist-in-residence.

What is Jennifer Egans best book?

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