The Sandspur

Issue date: 10/23/06 Section: News

Media Credit: Ryan Walls Author Jennifer Egan comes to Rollins.

Students, faculty and people from the surrounding community were able to see author Jennifer Egan analyze the work of a Rollins student and read some of her own work. The author of the novel The Keep held a master class and a public reading, open to all. The reading was followed by a book signing.

Jennifer Egan's career as a writer has followed a path of glory. The author herself has always been reaching for a high place in life and has seemed to land in the places she has reached for. She is the author of three novels. The Invisible Circus, The Keep and Look at Me. Look at Me was a finalist for the National Book Award.

Look at Me is basically the story of Charlotte, an aging New York model whose face was destroyed in a car accident. The best plastic surgery can make her attractive again, but not completely recognizable, so she is forced to start over again in the media world.

She has published short fiction on The New Yorker, Harper's, Zoetrope and Ploughshares, among others, and her journalism appears frequently in the New York Times Magazine. Her capturing cover stories for the New York times Magazine has created her widest audience. The topics on which she writes about range from the model James King to the practice of teenage girls cutting themselves to young gay men coming out on the Internet.

Then she tried something new, in a novel. Everything came together unlike ever before. The book brings everything together, the intricate storytelling has the ability to capture readers.

Jennifer Egan was born in Chicago and raised in San Francisco. She attended the University of Pennsylvania and St John's College, Cambridge. She now lives in Brooklyn with her husband and sons.

She is the receiver of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship, and was recently a fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library.

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