Ithaca College

This semester's Distinguished Visiting Writers Series kicks off on Tuesday at 7:30pm in Klingenstein Lounge, Egbert Hall with Jennifer Egan, National Book Award finalist in fiction. The reading is free and open to everyone.

Hailed as "one of the most gifted writers of her generation" (Seattle Post-Intelligencer), Jennifer Egan is a novelist, journalist, and short story writer. Her four books of fiction are wildly diverse, a fact that led Madison Smartt Bell to call her “a refreshingly unclassifiable novelist” in his review of her novel, The Keep, for the New York Times Book Review. The Keep was a National Bestseller and a New York Times Notable Book for 2006, and on the “Best Books” lists of the Chicago Tribune and the San Francisco Chronicle.

Egan’s other books are Look at Me; a finalist for the National Book Award in 2001; The Invisible Circus, which became a movie starring Cameron Diaz; and Emerald City and Other Stories. She has written many in-depth cover stories for the New York Times Magazine on such topics as homeless children, Catholic seminarians, and single women using donor sperm to become mothers. She has published short fiction in The New Yorker, Harper's, Zoetrope, and Ploughshares, among others. Egan's newest book of fiction, A Visit From The Goon Squad, is forthcoming in 2010.

For more information on the Distinguished Visiting Writers Series, contact Jack Wang, Assistant Professor in the Department of Writing, at 607-274-3493 or wang@ithaca.edu.