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Jonathan Dee
Dee at the 2022 Texas Book Festival.
Dee at the 2022 Texas Book Festival.
Born (1962-05-19) May 19, 1962 (age 62)
New York City, U.S.
OccupationWriter
EducationYale University (BA)

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][2][3]

Early life

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Dee was born in New York City.[4] He graduated from Yale University,[5] where he studied fiction writing with John Hersey.[citation needed]

Career

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Dee's first job out of college was at The Paris Review,[5] 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 eight novels, including The Lover of History, The Liberty Campaign, St. Famous, Palladio, The Privileges, A Thousand Pardons, The Locals, and Sugar Street. 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[6] and The New School,[7] and is currently a professor in the graduate writing program at Syracuse University.[8]

Dee collaborated on the oral biography of Plimpton, "George, Being George", published by Random House in 2008. He interviewed Hersey[9] and co-interviewed Grace Paley for The Paris Review's The Art of Fiction series.[10]

Awards and fellowships

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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[11] and the Guggenheim Foundation.[12] 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

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Dee lives in the historic John G. Ayling House in Syracuse, New York, with his partner, the writer Dana Spiotta.[13][14]

Bibliography

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  • 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)
  • Sugar Street (2022) (Grove Press)

References

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  1. ^ Garner, Dwight (August 1, 2017). "Boom, Bust and a Berkshires Interloper in 'The Locals'" – via NYTimes.com.
  2. ^ "Jonathan Dee". College of Arts & Sciences at Syracuse University. Retrieved March 13, 2022.
  3. ^ "Jonathan Dee – Story in Literary Fiction". www.storyinliteraryfiction.com. Retrieved March 13, 2022.
  4. ^ "An Interview with Jonathan Dee – The Alembic". alembic.providence.edu. Retrieved March 13, 2022.
  5. ^ a b "Up Front: Jonathan Dee". The New York Times. June 12, 2009. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved November 20, 2022.
  6. ^ "Columbia University MFA Faculty". Archived from the original on March 17, 2014.
  7. ^ "Faculty". The New School. Archived March 19, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  8. ^ "Jonathan Dee". asfaculty.syr.edu. Retrieved May 15, 2017.
  9. ^ Dee, Interviewed by Jonathan (1986). "The Art of Fiction No. 92". Vol. Summer-Fall 1986, no. 100. ISSN 0031-2037. Retrieved November 20, 2022.
  10. ^ MacFarquhar, Interviewed by Jonathan Dee, Barbara Jones & Larissa (1992). "The Art of Fiction No. 131". Vol. Fall 1992, no. 124. ISSN 0031-2037. Retrieved November 20, 2022.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  11. ^ "National Endowment for the Arts Website". Archived from the original on October 16, 2011. Retrieved June 29, 2011.
  12. ^ ""Eight Columbia Artists and Scholars Receive Guggenheim Fellowships"". Archived from the original on June 7, 2011.
  13. ^ Burton, Susan (February 16, 2016). "The Quietly Subversive Fictions of Dana Spiotta". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved November 20, 2022.
  14. ^ Eisenstadt, Marnie (September 12, 2017). "Jonathan Dee, a Pulitzer-nominated author, will write his next novel in Syracuse". syracuse.com. Retrieved November 20, 2022.
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