Jonathan Lethem

Jonathan Lethem is an American literary and genre author and essayist.

Jonathan Letham credits the work of science fiction author Phillip K. Dick as being “as formative an influence as marijuana or punk rock — as equally responsible for beautifully f**king up my life, for bending it irreversibly along a course I still travel.” A bohemian childhood and a lifelong appreciation of science fiction movies and comic books shapes his work as an adult, which is, much like the works of Margaret Atwood or Michael Chabon, considered by critics to be serious literature despite its unapologetic genre bent.

• Gun, With Occasional Music
• Motherless Brooklyn
• The Fortress of Solitude
• You Don't Love Me Yet

• February 19, 1964: Born

• 1982: Drops out of Bennington College

• 1989: Publishes first short story

• 1995: Moves back to Brooklyn from the San Francisco Bay Area

• 1999: Wins the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction

• 2004: Wins a MacArthur Fellowship

• 1994: Gun, With Occasional Music

• 1995: Amnesia Moon

• 1996: The Wall of the Sky, The Wall of the Eye

• 1997: As She Climbed Across The Table

• 1998: Girl In Landscape

• 1999: Motherless Brooklyn

• 2000: This Shape We're In

• 2003: Fortress of Solitude

• 2004: Men and Cartoons

• 2005: The Disappointment Artist

• 2006: How We Got Insipid

• 2007: You Don't Love Me Yet | Omega The Unknown

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