Jennifer Egan

Jennifer Egan ( born September 7, 1962 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American writer. For A Visit From the Goon Squad, she was awarded the 2011 Pulitzer Prize.

Life

Egan grew up in San Francisco, studied at the University of Pennsylvania and St. John's College, Cambridge. She has been writing since 1993 novels, stories and essays, and articles for magazines such as The New Yorker, The New York Times and Harper 's Bazaar. Your Twitter novel Black Box has the extraordinary literary form of individual tweets, so sections with a maximum of 140 characters, and describes the thoughts of a woman who is very set in spy thriller - style on a criminal.

Works

Novels and stories

  • The color of memory, German by Günter Ohnemus; Schöffling, Frankfurt am Main, 1999. ISBN 3-89561-220-0
  • Look at me, German by Gabriele Haefs; Schöffling, Frankfurt am Main, 2002. ISBN 3-89561-222-7
  • Under the spell, German by Gabriele Haefs; Schöffling, Frankfurt am Main, 2007. ISBN 3-89561-223-5
  • The greater part of the world, German Heide man tent; Schöffling, Frankfurt am Main, 2012. ISBN 978-3-89561-224-4
  • Black Box, German by Brigitte Walitzek; Schöffling, Frankfurt am Main, 2013. ISBN 978-3895612510

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 Do not 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, 23 September 2001
  • Lonely Gay Teen Seeking Same, in: New York Times Magazine, December 10, 2000
  • Walking Toward Mindfulness, in: 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 on: Salon.com, November 14, 1997
  • The Thin Red Line, in: New York Times Magazine, 27 July 1997
  • James is a girl, in: New York Times Magazine, February 4, 1996

Films

Awards

  • 2002 Carroll Kowal Journalism Award for the New York Times Magazine article To be Young and Homeless
  • 2009 Outstanding Media Award for Science and Health of the National Alliance on Mental Illness for the New York Times Magazine article The Bipolar Puzzle.
  • 2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prize ( Fiction ) for A Visit from the Goon Squad
  • 2011 National Book Critics Circle Award ( Fiction ) for A Visit from the Goon Squad
  • 2011 Pulitzer Prize (novel) for A Visit From the Goon Squad
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