About Jonathan Lethem
Jonathan Lethem was born in New York in 1964 and has published eight novels, including “Motherless Brooklyn” (1999) and “The Fortress of Solitude” (2004). He has won numerous prizes and honors for his work, including the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Gold Dagger and the MacArthur Fellowship. Lethem is a professor of creative writing at Pomona College in Claremont. He lives with his family in California.