Jonathan Dee
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) |
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
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]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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Novels
[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].
- 1962 births
- Living people
- 20th-century American male writers
- 20th-century American novelists
- 21st-century American male writers
- 21st-century American non-fiction writers
- 21st-century American novelists
- American male non-fiction writers
- American male novelists
- Columbia University staff
- The New Yorker people
- St. Francis College Literary Prize
- Syracuse University faculty
- Yale University alumni