Jonathan Allen Lethem (1964-02-19) February 19, 1964 (age 60) New York City, U.S.
Pen name
Harry Conklin
Occupation
Novelist
essayist
short story writer
Period
1989–present
Notable works
Motherless Brooklyn (1999) The Fortress of Solitude (2003)
Notable awards
National Book Critics Circle Award, World Fantasy Award
Spouse
Shelley Jackson (1987–1997) Julia Rosenberg (2000–2002) Amy Barrett
Children
2
Website
www.jonathanlethem.com
Jonathan Allen Lethem (/ˈliːθəm/;[1] 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.
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Jonathan Allen Lethem (/ˈliːθəm/; born February 19, 1964) is an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. His first novel, Gun, with Occasional...
directed by Edward Norton, based on the 1999 novel of the same name by JonathanLethem. Set in 1957 New York City, the film stars Norton as a private investigator...
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one source and is prepared to throw other ingredients into the pot." JonathanLethem, in his influential essay "The Ecstasy of Influence: A Plagiarism"...
Easton Ellis, Jill Eisenstadt, and JonathanLethem. Whereas Ellis's Camden College is located in New Hampshire, Lethem's Camden is in Vermont, and is notable...
the town. In his 2006 introduction of the Penguin Classics edition, JonathanLethem stated that the recurring town is "pretty well recognizable as North...
and directed by Christopher Peditto. It is based on a short story by JonathanLethem. The film is about two brothers who try to leave New York City for...
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Chronic City (2009) is a novel by American author JonathanLethem. Lethem began work on Chronic City in early 2007, and has said that the novel is "set...
the character was published from 2007 to 2008, written by novelist JonathanLethem and illustrated by Farel Dalrymple. Unlike many other superhero titles...
possibility of getting into a new open field of possibilities." Author JonathanLethem called Ministry for the Future “the best science-fiction nonfiction...
Night with Roky Erickson (1984) You're Gonna Miss Me (2005) Author JonathanLethem titled his 2007 novel You Don't Love Me Yet in honor of two (otherwise...
Times Book Review "10 Best Books of 2008" by the paper's editors. with JonathanLethem writing: "2666 is as consummate a performance as any 900-page novel...
Dissident Gardens is JonathanLethem's ninth novel. It is a multigenerational saga of revolutionaries and activists, the civil rights movement and the...
Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini (2003) The Fortress of Solitude, by JonathanLethem (2003) Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro (2005) Indecision, by Benjamin...
for science fiction and fantasy. In 1987, Jackson married the writer JonathanLethem; they divorced in 1998. She currently teaches part time in the graduate...
studied classics with Claude Fredericks, and also met Bret Easton Ellis, JonathanLethem, and Jill Eisenstadt. Tartt graduated in 1986. The Secret History (1992)...
CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) Brooker, Joseph (2020). JonathanLethem and the Galaxy of Writing. London. ISBN 978-1-350-00376-7. OCLC 1089274366...
"Flight from the truth". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 October 2018. JonathanLethem (27 October 2016). "It all connects: Adam Curtis and the secret history...
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