Jennifer Egan

Jennifer Egan
Egan in 2017
Born	September 1962 (age 61) Preview warning: Page using Template:Birth year and age with unknown parameter "3 = 7" Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Occupation	Novelist
Education	University of Pennsylvania (BA) St John's College, Cambridge (MA)
Genre	Fiction novel short story
Notable works	A Visit from the Goon Squad (2010) Manhattan Beach (2017)
Notable awards	National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowship Pulitzer Prize for Fiction National Book Critics Circle Award
Spouse	David Herskovits ​ (m. 1994)​
Children	2
Website
www.jenniferegan.com

Jennifer Egan (born September 7, 1962) is an American novelist and short-story writer. Her novel A Visit from the Goon Squad won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. From 2018 to 2020, she served as the president of PEN America.^[1]