The reading will take place at 7 p.m. in the Multi-Purpose Room, located in the Campus Center on Third Street, between Cooper Street and the Benjamin Franklin Bridge on the Rutgers–Camden Campus. A Q&A session and reception will follow. To register, visit http://events.camden.rutgers.edu/jenniferegan.
Egan is the author of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel A Visit from the Goon Squad, which also won the National Book Critics Circle award for fiction and was nominated for the National Book Award for fiction, the Pen/Faulkner award, and the Orange Prize for fiction. In addition to her numerous awards, HBO selected the work for a series treatment.
Other works by Egan include the novel The Invisible Circus, which became a feature film starring Cameron Diaz; Look at Me, a finalist for the National Book Award in fiction in 2001; Emerald City and Other Stories; and The Keep, which was a national best seller. Her short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper' s Magazine, McSweeney's, and other magazines.
Egan's nonfiction articles appear frequently in The New York Times magazine. Her 2002 cover story on homeless children received the Carroll Kowal Journalism Award, and her most recent article, ''The Bipolar Kid,'' received a 2009 Outstanding Media Award for Science and Health Reporting from the National Alliance on Mental Illness.
For more information on Egan’s reading at Rutgers–Camden, call (856) 225-6021; for directions to campus, visit http://camden.rutgers.edu. Learn more about the Rutgers–Camden MFA program at http://mfa.camden.rutgers.edu.
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