Jonathan Lethem
Sign in to saveAlso known as Jonathan Allen Lethem, Harry Conklin
American novelist, essayist, short story writer, Roy E. Disney Chair in Creative Writing, Pomona College
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 24
Top works
- PEN America : A Journal for Writers and Readers
- The Peanuts Papers
- Naʻarah be-nof
- Bruḳlin ha-yetomah
- Different Kind of Tension
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 285
- Total plays
- 4,845
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Measuring inconsistency in meta-analyses
· 2003 · cited 52,630x
- Cytoscape: A Software Environment for Integrated Models of Biomolecular Interaction Networks
· 2003 · cited 45,688x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,423x
- ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge
· 2015 · cited 30,509x
- Fully convolutional networks for semantic segmentation
· 2015 · cited 28,104x
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Quotes
- ““Where did you come from?” asked Omidon.“I was exiled to the margin,” said Wendy sourly.“For what reason?”“Why is anyone ever exiled to the margin? For threatening the center.””
- “Feeling unique is what we all have in common, it’s the thing that’s always the same.”
- “Human lives exist to be experienced, or possibly endured, but not solved. They resemble any other novel more than they do mysteries. Westerns, even. It’s that lie the mystery tells that I detest.”
- ““Scout, that’s a good one,” said the sergeant. “Danny-boy couldn’t scout the inside of his eyelids.””
- ““Don’t try to figure me out,” I said. “It doesn’t work—I’ve tried it myself.””
- “The way to make a bundle in architecture right now was to devise new ways for people to pretend to gather while actually keeping their distance.”
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Key facts
- Born
- Jonathan Allen Lethem , ( 1964-02-19 ) February 19, 1964 (age 62) , New York City, U.S.
- Pen name
- Harry Conklin
- Occupation
- Novelist essayist short story writer
- Period
- 1989 – present
- Notable works
- Motherless Brooklyn (1999), The Fortress of Solitude (2003)
- Notable awards
- National Book Critics Circle Award , World Fantasy Award
- Spouse
- Shelley Jackson (1987–1997), Julia Rosenberg (2000–2002), Amy Barrett
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Jonathan Lethem
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Encyclopedic overview
Jonathan Allen Lethem (/ˈliːθəm/ LEETH-əm born February 19, 1964) is an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. His first novel, Gun, with Occasional Music, a genre work that mixed elements of science fiction and detective fiction, was published in 1994. In 1999, Lethem published Motherless Brooklyn, a National Book Critics Circle Award-winning novel that achieved mainstream success. In 2003, he published The Fortress of Solitude, which became a New York Times Best Seller. In 2005, he received a MacArthur Fellowship. Since 2011, he has taught creative writing at Pomona College. In 2025, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in fiction, a prestigious honor recognizing exceptional artists and scholars in the arts and humanities.
Early life
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