Jennifer Egan is an American novelist and short story writer. She has written three novels, including ‘Look at Me’, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. She has also published a short story collection, ‘Emerald City’. Besides her books, she also writes journalism articles, which appear frequently in ‘The New York Times Magazine’.
She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship and was recently a fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library.
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