Jennifer Egan is an American novelist and short-story writer. In 2011, her novel A Visit from the Goon Squad won both the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Jennifer Egan was born in Chicago and raised in San Francisco. She attended the University of Pennsylvania and St John's College, Cambridge.She is the author of three novels, The Invisible Circus, Look at Me, a finalist for the National Book Award, and the bestselling The Keep, and a short story collection, Emerald City. She has published short fiction in The New Yorker, Harper's, McSweeney's and Ploughshares, among others, and her journalism appears frequently in the New York Times Magazine.