About Jennifer Egan
Jennifer Egan 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. In 2013, the first academic conference event dedicated to Egan's work was held at Birkbeck, University of London, entitled "Invisible Circus: An International Conference on the work of Jennifer Egan". Jennifer Egan: Chronological Bibliography of First Editions. Her first novel, The Invisible Circus, was released in 1995 and adapted into a film of the same name released in 2001.
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