Jennifer Egan

Jennifer Egan is an American novelist and short-story writer. In 2011, her novel A Visit from the Goon Squad won both the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Jennifer Egan was born in Chicago and raised in San Francisco. She attended the University of Pennsylvania and St John's College, Cambridge.She is the author of three novels, The Invisible Circus, Look at Me, a finalist for the National Book Award, and the bestselling The Keep, and a short story collection, Emerald City. She has published short fiction in The New Yorker, Harper's, McSweeney's and Ploughshares, among others, and her journalism appears frequently in the New York Times Magazine.

år av livet: 7 september 1962 – nuvarande

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Olga Ghar citeratför 2 år sedan

Thirty-three is still young enough to register as “young.”

Registering as “young” is especially welcome to those who may not register as “young” much longer.

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a burmistrovahar citeratför 2 år sedan

If a two-person conversation remains awkward for eight lines of speech—four lines each, not counting salutations—it has an 80 percent chance of remaining awkward, whereas if a conversation becomes natural within those first eight lines of speech, it is likely to remain so, and—surprisingly—to leave an impression of naturalness despite up to ten additional awkward lines

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a burmistrovahar citeratför 2 år sedan

Her goal was not (she insisted) to locate the descendants of Fortunata’s original subjects but to test and strengthen a theory she was developing about human “affinities,” or what made people like and trust one another.