Novelist Jennifer Egan

Jennifer Egan, one of the leading fiction writers of her generation, received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and National Book Critics Circle Award for her bestselling, structurally inventive novel, A Visit from the Goon Squad (2010), widely hailed as one of the best novels of the 21st century (The Guardian, TIME, Entertainment Weekly).
Her 2022 novel, The Candy House, is the story of a Silicon Valley billionaire who creates a company that allows users to upload and download human memory. Publishers Weekly called it “an electrifying and shape-shifting story that one-ups its Pulitzer-winning predecessor.”
Egan served as President of the literary and human rights organization PEN America from 2018 to 2020.
Moderated by Christy O'Callaghan-Leue, NYS Writers Institute graduate assistant.
Cosponsored by the English Department’s Creative Writing Program and Young Writers Program, and the Honors College.