Jonathan Lethem
Jonathan Lethem was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1964.

Lethem is the author of six novels, including Gun, With Occasional Music, The Fortress of Solitude, and Motherless Brooklyn, which won the National Book Critic's Award.

Lethem is also the author of a story collection, The Wall of the Sky, The Wall of the Eye, a novella, This Shape We're In, and a book of essays, The Disappointment Artist.

His stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, Esquire, The New York Times, The Paris Review, Granta, and other publications. In 2005, he was awarded a MacArthur fellowship.

Lethem lives in Brooklyn and Maine.

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Bibilography
Fiction
Gun, With Occasional Music, 1994
Amnesia Moon, 1995
The Wall of the Sky, The Wall of the Eye, 1996
As She Climbed Across the Table, 1997
Girl in Landscape, 1998
Motherless Brooklyn, 1999
Kafka Americana, with Carter Scholz, 1999
This Shape We're In, 2000
The Fortress of Solitude, 2003
Men and Cartoons: Stories, 2004
How We Got Insipid, 2006

Nonfiction
Da Capo Best Music Writing: The Year's Finest Writing on Rock, Pop, Jazz, Country and More, with Paul Bresnick, 2002
The Disappointment Artist: Essays, 2005

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Lethem Online
Read Lethem's short story "Glasses."
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Read the Powell's interview.
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ead the McSweeney's interview.
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Listen to Lethem with Jeffrey Eugenides and Jacqueline Woodson on NPR's Talk of the Nation.
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