Pulitzer Grit: Jennifer Egan captures vivid WWII Brooklyn
Prize-Winning Novelist Sets a Hot Page-Turner In Adopted Home Boro
In a recent online interview for BrooklynEagle.com, Pulitzer Prize-winner Jennifer Egan told the Eagle that she had come to Brooklyn from her native Chicago via San Francisco, then Philadelphia and a stint in Manhattan.
“We moved to Fort Greene in 2000,” she said. “A few things led us to move: My husband was already working in the neighborhood, so we were familiar with its beauty … we were expecting a baby. It was natural to look for more space in Brooklyn.”
Her latest novel called for research on Brooklyn during the World War II era, particularly at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, just blocks from her Fort Greene home.
Having won a Pulitzer for “A Visit from the Goon Squad,” Egan has been kept busy — and traveling — with speaking engagements by her publisher, Scribner, for the hugely anticipated new novel “Manhattan Beach.”