Jonathan Lethem

Jonathan Lethem is an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer whose first novel, Gun, with Occasional Music, mixed science fiction and detective fiction when it came out in 1994. His 1999 novel Motherless Brooklyn won a National Book Critics Circle Award, and The Fortress of Solitude, published in 2003, became a New York Times Best Seller. Chronic City, his satire of New York in a long, strange winter, followed. He has taught creative writing at Pomona College since 2011.