Jonathan Lethem

Quick Facts

Full Name	Jonathan Lethem
Occupation	Novelist
Date Of Birth	Feb 19, 1964(1964-02-19)
Age	60
Birthplace	Brooklyn
Country	United States
Birth City	New York
Horoscope	Aquarius

Jonathan Lethem Biography

Jonathan Lethem is one of the most popular and richest Novelist who was born on February 19, 1964 in Brooklyn, New York, United States. A American author and novelist, he’s most well-known for his novels such like Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude. The first novel he wrote Gun, with Occasional Music, came out in 1994. It was a novel that combines elements of detective-fiction and science fiction.

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Jonathan Allen Lethem (/ˈ l iː θ əm / ; born February 19, 1964) 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. As of 2011, he is the Roy E. Disney Professor in Creative Writing at Pomona College.

After graduating from high school, Lethem entered Bennington College in Vermont in 1982 as a prospective art student. At Bennington, Lethem experienced an “overwhelming. … collision with the realities of class—my parents’ bohemian milieu had kept me from understanding, even a little, that we were poor. … at Bennington that was all demolished by an encounter with the fact of real privilege.” This, coupled with the realization that he was more interested in writing than art, led Lethem to drop out halfway through his sophomore year. He hitchhiked from Denver, Colorado to Berkeley, California in 1984, across “a thousand miles of desert and mountains through Wyoming, Utah, and Nevada, with about 40 dollars in my pocket,” describing it as “one of the stupidest and most memorable things I’ve ever done.”

He was married to writer and artist Shelley Jackson in 1987; they divorced later.

Jonathan Lethem Net Worth

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

After having dropped out of Bennington College, he lived in California and was employed as an employee for used booksellers.

His novel of 1999, Motherless Brooklyn, won the National Book Critics Circle Award.

set in Queens and Greenwich Village, another New York neighborhood book, very much about the life of the city … writing about Greenwich Village in 1958 was really a jump for me, it was as much of an imaginative leap as any of the more fantastical things I’ve done. But really exciting, too.

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Who is Jonathan Lethem Dating?

According to our records, Jonathan Lethem married to Amy Barrett , Julia Rosenberg , Shelley Jackson. As of December 1, 2023, Jonathan Lethem’s is not dating anyone.

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Upon its publication in 1999, Motherless Brooklyn won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, The Macallan Gold Dagger for crime fiction, and the Salon Book Award; it was named book of the year by Esquire. In 1999, actor Edward Norton announced that he was planning to write, direct and star in a film adaptation of the novel. Norton’s film was released to critical acclaim in 2019.

Facts & Trivia

Jonathan Ranked on the list of most popular Novelist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Jonathan Lethem celebrates birthday on February 19 of every year.

In the early 2000s, Lethem published a story collection, edited two anthologies, wrote magazine pieces, and published the 55-page novella This Shape We’re In (2000). This Shape We’re In was one of the first offerings from McSweeney’s Books, the publishing imprint that developed from Dave Eggers’ McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern.

Top Facts about Jonathan Lethem

1. Jonathan Lethem is an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer.
2. He was born on February 19, 1964 in Brooklyn, New York.
3. Lethem’s debut novel “Gun, with Occasional Music” was published in 1994.
4. He has written over a dozen novels and numerous essays and short stories.
5. Lethem won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction in 2013 for his novel “Dissident Gardens.”
6. His most famous work is the novel “Motherless Brooklyn,” which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction in 1999.
7. Lethem has also worked as a professor of creative writing at Pomona College and Columbia University.
8. He is known for blending genres such as science fiction, detective fiction, and literary fiction.
9. Lethem’s writing often explores themes of identity, memory, and popular culture.
10. In addition to his writing career, he is also a musician and has played in several bands over the years.

How old is Jonathan Lethem?

58 years (February 19, 1964)

Where does jonathan Lethem live?

He has children — they are in a hardcore Beatles phase — and mortgages on either coast, including one in Maine, not far from the setting of “The Arrest.” One question implicit in the new novel is how many people will get to lead this burgher’s life before it’s taken away. Jonathan Lethem at his home in Claremont.

Is Motherless Brooklyn fiction?

AuthorJonathan Lethem
Genre| Detective novel
Publisher| Doubleday
Publication date| 1999
Media type| Print

Who wrote Motherless Brooklyn?

Screenplay

Is Lionel Essrog a real person?

Motherless Brooklyn isn’t necessarily ripped-from-the-headlines stuff, but even though Lionel Essrog isn’t based on a specific person , the character was special enough to catch the eye of Norton. Motherless Brooklyn tells the story of Lionel, whose mentor, Frank Minna (Bruce Willis), is murdered in 1950s New York City.