Jennifer Egan, one of the leading fiction writers of her generation, received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and National Book Critics Circle Award for her bestselling, structurally inventive novel, A Visit from the Goon Squad (2010), widely hailed as one of the best novels of the 21st century (The Guardian, TIME, Entertainment Weekly).

 

Her much-anticipated new novel, The Candy House (2022), is the story of a Silicon Valley billionaire who creates a company that allows users to upload and download human memory. Publishers Weekly called it “an electrifying and shape-shifting story that one-ups its Pulitzer-winning predecessor.”

 

Egan served as President of the literary and human rights organization PEN America from 2018 to 2020.

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