Jennifer Egan, who has been called one of the most gifted writers of her generation, was born in Chicago and raised in San Francisco. Educated at the University of Pennsylvania and St. John’s College, Cambridge, she is the author of several novels, including A Visit from the Goon Squad, winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, and the LA Times Book Prize, and Manhattan Beach (Scribner, 2017). She has also published a short story collection, Emerald City. Egan was a fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library.

2011 PULITZER PRIZE
FOR FICTION

2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction