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]
Jonathan Dee | |
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 Dee at the 2022 Texas Book Festival. | |
| Born | May 19, 1962 New York City, U.S. |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Education | Yale University (BA) |
Early life
editDee was born in New York City.[4] He graduated from Yale University,[5] where he studied fiction writing with John Hersey.[citation needed]
Career
editDee'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
editDee 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
editDee lives in the historic John G. Ayling House in Syracuse, New York, with his partner, the writer Dana Spiotta.[13][14]
Bibliography
editNovels
edit- 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)
Book reviews
edit| Year | Review article | Work(s) reviewed |
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| 2021 | Dee, Jonathan (March 1, 2021). "Call it like it is : in Viet Than Nguyen's 'The Committed,' fiction is criticism". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. 97 (2): 62–65.[a] | Nguyen, Viet Thanh (2021). The committed. New York: Grove Press. |
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- Bibliography notes
- ^ Online version is titled "How Viet Thanh Nguyen turns fiction into criticism".
References
edit- ^ Garner, Dwight (August 1, 2017). "Boom, Bust and a Berkshires Interloper in 'The Locals'" – via NYTimes.com.
- ^ "Jonathan Dee". College of Arts & Sciences at Syracuse University. Retrieved March 13, 2022.
- ^ "Jonathan Dee – Story in Literary Fiction". www.storyinliteraryfiction.com. Retrieved March 13, 2022.
- ^ "An Interview with Jonathan Dee – The Alembic". alembic.providence.edu. Retrieved March 13, 2022.
- ^ a b "Up Front: Jonathan Dee". The New York Times. June 12, 2009. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved November 20, 2022.
- ^ "Columbia University MFA Faculty". Archived from the original on March 17, 2014.
- ^ "Faculty". The New School. Archived March 19, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Jonathan Dee". asfaculty.syr.edu. Retrieved May 15, 2017.
- ^ Dee, Interviewed by Jonathan (1986). "The Art of Fiction No. 92". Vol. Summer-Fall 1986, no. 100. ISSN 0031-2037. Retrieved November 20, 2022.
- ^ 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) - ^ "National Endowment for the Arts Website". Archived from the original on October 16, 2011. Retrieved June 29, 2011.
- ^ ""Eight Columbia Artists and Scholars Receive Guggenheim Fellowships"". Archived from the original on June 7, 2011.
- ^ Burton, Susan (February 16, 2016). "The Quietly Subversive Fictions of Dana Spiotta". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved November 20, 2022.
- ^ Eisenstadt, Marnie (September 12, 2017). "Jonathan Dee, a Pulitzer-nominated author, will write his next novel in Syracuse". syracuse.com. Retrieved November 20, 2022.
External links
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- Ready-made rebellion: The empty tropes of transgressive fiction
- The Millions Interview: Jonathan Dee
- The New Yorker: Live Chat with Jonathan Dee
- Jonathan Dee on the place of the novel in a money-driven society Archived February 2, 2016, at the Wayback Machine Clé des langues, 2012
- "Watch Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton as Himself". PBS. May 16, 2014].