Jonathan Lethem

Novelist, essayist, short story writer

1964 -

country of citizenship: United States of America
educated at: Bennington College, The High School of Music & Art
occupation: writer, novelist, essayist, author, science fiction writer
award received: Locus Awards, National Book Critics Circle Award, Locus Award for Best First Novel, Crawford Award, World Fantasy Award for Best Collection, Tähtivaeltaja Award, MacArthur Fellows Program
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
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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. It was followed by three more science fiction novels. 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.
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