

I actually tried to break that rule later if you make a rule then you also should break it! My ground rules were: every piece has to be very different, from a different point of view. I wanted a lateral feeling, not a forward feeling. She also published a short-story collection in 1993.Įgan has been hesitant to classify her most noted work, A Visit from the Goon Squad, as either a novel or a short story collection, saying, Her journalism appears frequently in The New York Times Magazine. In addition to her several novels ( see below), Egan has published short fiction in The New Yorker, Harper's, Zoetrope: All-Story, and Ploughshares, among other periodicals. After graduating from Penn, Egan spent two years at St John's College at Cambridge University, supported by a Thouron Award. She majored in English literature at the University of Pennsylvania and, as an undergrad, dated Steve Jobs, who installed a Macintosh computer in her bedroom. She is perhaps best known for her 2010 novel A Visit from the Goon Squad, which won both the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for fiction and National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction.Įgan was born in Chicago, Illinois, but grew up in San Francisco, California. Jennifer Egan is an American novelist and short story writer who lives in the Fort Greene section of Brooklyn, New York City. Currently-lives in Brooklyn, New York, New York.Awards-Pulitizer Prize National Book Critics Circle Award.

Education-University of Pennsylvania Cambridge.
