About Jonathan Lethem
Jonathan Allen Lethem is an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. His first novel, Gun, with Occasional Music, a genre work that mixed elements of science fiction and detective fiction, was published in 1994. In 1999, Lethem published Motherless Brooklyn, a National Book Critics Circle Award-winning novel that achieved mainstream success. In 2003, he published The Fortress of Solitude, which became a New York Times Best Seller. In 2005, he received a MacArthur Fellowship. Since 2011, he has taught creative writing at Pomona College. In 2025, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in fiction, a prestigious honor recognizing exceptional artists and scholars in the arts and humanities.
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Awards & Honors
Tähtivaeltaja Award
Gold Dagger
Guggenheim Fellowship
MacArthur Fellows Program
Locus Award for Best First Novel
World Fantasy Award for Best Collection
Berlin Prize
Crawford Award
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National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction
