Jennifer Egan

Jennifer Egan was born in Chicago in 1962 and grew up in San Francisco, where the city's punk and post-punk music scenes left a lasting impression. She studied at the University of Pennsylvania and St. John's College, Cambridge, and began her career as a journalist, writing long-form pieces for The New York Times Magazine and other publications. Her early novels, The Invisible Circus and Look at Me, established her reputation for formally ambitious fiction that engages with contemporary culture. This author hub collects 1 work in the Canon Compass ranking, led by A Visit from the Goon Squad.