Jennifer Egan

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She is the author of three novels, "The Keep", "The Invisible Circus", and "Look at Me", which was a finalist for the National Book Award, and a short story collection, "Emerald City". "The Keep" (2006), her most recent book, received favorable reviews from publications including "The New York Times Book Review" [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/30/books/review/30bell.html?ex=1156132800&en=5ebb02e43e212fd4&ei=5070] . She has published short fiction in "The New Yorker", "Harper's", "Zoetrope All-Story", and "Ploughshares", among others, and her journalism appears 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. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and sons.

External links

* [http://www.jenniferegan.com/ Jennifer Egan's website]
* [http://www.metacritic.com/books/authors/eganjennifer/keep Reviews & Scores for "The Keep"] at Metacritic.com
* [http://beta.boldtype.com/51655 Book Review at Boldtype.com]
* [http://www.thisoldhouse.com/toh/knowhow/adding/article/0,16417,1550097,00.html/"The Ghost in the Renovation"] at This Old House website
* [http://bookishlove.net/200611/behrens-egan-and-rackoff-at-happy-endings/ Reading report from Happy Endings] with Peter Behrens and David Rakoff, published at bookishlove.net (Nov 2006)