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Jennifer Egan was born on September 7, 1962 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Daughter of Donald Egan and Kay Kimpton (maiden name: Kernwein). Her paternal grandfather was a police commander and bodyguard for President Truman during his visits to Chicago. She was raised in San Francisco.
After graduating from Lowell High School, she majored in English literature at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1985 she graduated from the university with a B.A. After graduating, Egan spent two years at St John's College, Cambridge supported by Thouron Award where she earned her M.A. in 1987. In those student years she did a lot of traveling, often with a backpack: China, Russia, Japan, much of Europe.
She came to New York in 1987 and worked an array of various jobs while learning to write: catering at the World Trade Center; joining the word processing pool at a midtown law firm; serving as the private secretary for the Countess of Romanones.
Egan has been a freelance writer since 1991. Her first novel "The Invisible Circus" came out in 1995 and was released as a movie starring Cameron Diaz in 2001. She has published short fiction in The New Yorker, Harper's, Zoetrope: All-Story, and Ploughshares, among other periodicals.
Also a journalist, she has written frequently in the New York Times Magazine. As of 28 February 2018, she is the President of the PEN America Center.
Egan received a Thouron Award in 1986. She was the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1996.
As a journalist, she received the Carroll Kowal Journalism Award for her 2002 cover story on homeless children, and “The Bipolar Kid” received a 2009 NAMI Outstanding Media Award for Science and Health Reporting from the National Alliance on Mental Illness.
In 2011 she was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Egan won the 2011 National Book Critics Circle Award (Fiction), Pulitzer Prize and LA Times Book Prize for "A Visit from the Goon Squad."
In 2013, the first academic conference event dedicated to Egan's work was held at Birkbeck, University of London, entitled "Invisible Circus: An International Conference on the work of Jennifer Egan."
Egan’s 2017 novel "Manhattan Beach" has been awarded the 2018 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction.
Quotations: "I don’t experience time as linear. I experience it in layers that seem to coexist...One thing that facilitates that kind of time travel is music, which is why I think music ended up being such an important part of the book. Also, I was reading Proust. He tries, very successfully in some ways, to capture the sense of time passing, the quality of consciousness, and the ways to get around linearity, which is the weird scourge of writing prose."
She was a fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library in 2004-2005.
Quotes from others about the person
The New York Times: "Jennifer Egan is a refreshingly unclassifiable novelist; she deploys most of the arsenal developed by metafiction writers of the 1960's and refined by more recent authors like William T. Vollmann and David Foster Wallace - but she can’t exactly be counted as one of them".
While she was an undergraduate, Egan dated Steve Jobs, who installed a Macintosh computer in her bedroom. On June 25, 1994 Egan married David Herskovits. She currently lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two sons.
