Jennifer Egan

2 summariesLiterary Fiction, Historical Fiction

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. As of February 28, 2018, she is the president of PEN America.

Books by Jennifer Egan

2 books available

A Visit From the Goon Squad
Jennifer Egan
3.7 (175k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction
Jennifer Egan's "A Visit From the Goon Squad" connects the lives of a music executive and his assistant, showing how ambition, decay, and redemption unfold over decades in the music industry.
Manhattan Beach
Jennifer Egan
3.6 (73k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction
In 1940s New York, a young woman works at the Brooklyn Naval Yard and uncovers the secrets of her father's disappearance, navigating gangsters and wartime changes to build her own life.