Jennifer Egan

Jennifer Egan

February 10, 2012 | 8pm - 12am
University Center Ballroom

“Wildly inventive” – New York Times

Winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her remarkable novel A Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan brings her unique voice and style to FSU for a conversation/reading.

Goon Squad also won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, earning a great many rave reviews, with critics calling it “audacious and extraordinary” (Philadelphia Inquirer), “clever, edgy and groundbreaking” (Chicago Tribune), “pitch perfect” (New York Times Book Review), and “a singular work of fiction” (Time).

Egan is also the author of The Invisible Circus, Look at Me (a finalist for the National Book Award in 2001), Emerald City and Other Stories, and The Keep, which was a national bestseller. Her short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Harpers, Granta and McSweeney’s. Her non-fiction articles appear frequently in the New York Times Magazine. Her 2002 cover story on homeless children received the Carroll Kowal Journalism Award, and her most recent article, The Bipolar Kid, received a 2009 NAMI Outstanding Media Award for Science and Health Reporting from the National Alliance on Mental Illness.

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