Jonathan Lethem

(1964-)

American novelist, essayist, short story writer, Roy E. Disney Chair in Creative Writing, Pomona College

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Jonathan Allen Lethem (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. In 2025 was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in fiction, a prestigious honor recognizing exceptional artists and scholars in the arts and humanities.

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Born	Jonathan Lethem 19 February 1964 (age 61) Brooklyn, New York, USA
Zodiac	Aquarius
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Shelley Jackson 1963- · American writer and artist · m. 1987; div. 1998 info edit

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Julia Rosenberg 1967- · · m. 2000; div. 2003 info edit

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