Jonathan Lethem
Novelist, Author
1964 –
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Who is Jonathan Lethem?
Jonathan Allen Lethem 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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- Born
- Feb 19, 1964
Brooklyn - Also known as
- Harry Conklin
- Jonathan Allen Lethem
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Shelley Jackson
(1987 - 1997) - Julia Rosenberg
(2000 - 2003) - Amy Barrett
(2004 - )
- Shelley Jackson
- Children
- Religion
- Judaism
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Bennington College
- Lived in
- New York
- California
- Brooklyn
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on July 23, 2013
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