Jennifer Egan

Jennifer Egan was born in Chicago to Donald and Kay Egan. When her parents’ divorced, she moved with her mother to San Francisco, where she spent her youth. She studied English literature at the University of Pennsylvania. After graduation, Egan spent two years at St. John’s College in Cambridge, England. During this time, she traveled throughout Europe, which provided inspiration for some of her first novels. She moved to New York City after returning from Europe, and worked a series of odd jobs before her stories began being published. She published her first novel, Invisible Circus, in 1995. She published two other novels and a collection of short stories before A Visit From the Goon Squad, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2011. Egan continues to write in New York City, where she lives with with her husband and two sons.