Jonathan Dee
Jonathan Dee | |
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 Dee at the 2014 Brooklyn Book Festival | |
| Born | 19 May 1962 New York City |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | American |
Jonathan Dee (born May 19, 1962) is an American novelist and non-fiction writer. His fifth novel, The Privileges, was a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.[1]
Early life[]
Dee was born in New York City.[citation needed] He graduated from Yale University,[2] where he studied fiction writing with John Hersey.[citation needed]
Career[]
Dee's first job out of college was at The Paris Review,[2] as an Associate Editor and personal assistant to George Plimpton. Early in his tenure with Plimpton, Dee helped pull off the popular April Fool's joke about Sidd Finch, a fictitious baseball pitcher Plimpton wrote about for Sports Illustrated.[citation needed]
Dee has published seven novels, including The Lover of History, The Liberty Campaign, St. Famous, Palladio, The Privileges, A Thousand Pardons, and, most recently, The Locals. He is a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, and contributor to Harper's. He taught in the graduate writing programs at Columbia University[3] and The New School,[4] and is currently a professor in the graduate writing program at Syracuse University.[5]
Dee collaborated on the oral biography of Plimpton, "George, Being George", published by Random House in 2008. He interviewed Hersey[6] and co-interviewed Grace Paley for The Paris Review's The Art of Fiction series.[7]
Awards and fellowships[]
Dee was nominated for a National Magazine Award in 2010 for criticism in Harper's. He has received fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts[8] and the Guggenheim Foundation.[9] His 2010 novel, The Privileges, won the 2011 Prix Fitzgerald prize and was a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. He was the second winner of the St. Francis College Literary Prize.
Personal life[]
He lives in Syracuse, New York, with his wife, the writer Dana Spiotta.[10]
Bibliography[]
- The Lover of History (1990) (Houghton Mifflin)
- The Liberty Campaign (1993) (Pocket Books)
- St. Famous (1996) (Doubleday)
- Palladio (2002) (Doubleday)
- The Privileges (2010) (Random House)
- A Thousand Pardons (2013) (Random House)
- The Locals (2017) (Random House)
References[]
- ^ Garner, Dwight (August 1, 2017). "Boom, Bust and a Berkshires Interloper in 'The Locals'" – via NYTimes.com.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Ed. (June 12, 2009). "Up Front: Jonathan Dee". The New York Times.
- ^ "Columbia University MFA Faculty". Archived from the original on March 17, 2014.
- ^ "Faculty". The New School. Archived March 19, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Jonathan Dee". asfaculty.syr.edu. Retrieved May 15, 2017.
- ^ Dee, Jonathan. "John Hersey, The Art of Fiction No. 92". The Paris Review. Retrieved October 15, 2014.
- ^ Dee, Jonathan; Jones, Barbara; Larissa MacFarquhar, "Grace Paley, The Art of Fiction No. 131". The Paris Review.
- ^ "National Endowment for the Arts Website". Archived from the original on October 16, 2011. Retrieved June 29, 2011.
- ^ ""Eight Columbia Artists and Scholars Receive Guggenheim Fellowships"". Archived from the original on June 7, 2011.
- ^ [1]. The New York Times Magazine.
External links[]
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- Ready-made rebellion: The empty tropes of transgressive fiction
- The Millions Interview: Jonathan Dee
- The New Yorker: Live Chat with Jonathan Dee
- Jonathan Dee on the place of the novel in a money-driven society Clé des langues, 2012
- "Watch Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton as Himself". PBS. May 16, 2014].
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