Jonathan Lethem
1964
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Pseudonym: Harry Conklin
Country of citizenship: United States
Languages spoken, written or signed: English
Educated at: Bennington College, High School of Music & Art
Occupation: writer, novelist, essayist, author, science fiction writer
Award received: National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, Locus Award for Best First Novel, Crawford Award, World Fantasy Award for Best Collection, Tähtivaeltaja Award, MacArthur Fellows Program, Berlin Prize, Gold Dagger, Guggenheim Fellowship
Influenced by: John Updike, Paula Fox, J. G. Ballard, Italo Calvino, Robert Stone, H. P. Lovecraft, Philip K. Dick, Raymond Chandler, Ursula K. Le Guin, Philip Roth, Lester Bangs, Paul Auster, Muriel Spark, Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith, James Baldwin, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Lewis Carroll, George Lucas, Bob Dylan, Robert Crumb, Charles Dickens, Saul Bellow, Franz Kafka, Friedrich Nietzsche
Official website: www.jonathanlethem.com
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Jonathan Allen Lethem (; born February 19, 1964) is an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. His first novel, Gun, with Occasional Music, a genre work that mixed elements of science fiction and detective fiction, was published in 1994. In 1999, Lethem published Motherless Brooklyn, a National Book Critics Circle Award-winning novel that achieved mainstream success. In 2003, he published The Fortress of Solitude, which became a New York Times Best Seller. In 2005, he received a MacArthur Fellowship. Since 2011, he has taught creative writing at Pomona College. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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