Jennifer Egan

Jennifer Egan is an American novelist and short-story writer, best known for A Visit from the Goon Squad, which won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. Her later books include Manhattan Beach, a historical novel with a wartime setting, and Candy House, a sequel that returns to the characters of Goon Squad. From 2018 to 2020, she served as president of PEN America.