Jonathan Dee Explained

Jonathan Dee
Birth Date:19 May 1962
Birth Place: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

Dee was born in New York City.[4] He graduated from Yale University,[5] where he studied fiction writing with John Hersey.

Career

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.

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 Reviews The Art of Fiction series.[10]

Awards and fellowships

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

Dee lives in the historic John G. Ayling House in Syracuse, New York, with his partner, the writer Dana Spiotta.[13] [14]

Bibliography

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Boom, Bust and a Berkshires Interloper in 'The Locals'. Dwight. Garner. August 1, 2017. NYTimes.com.
  2. Web site: Jonathan Dee . 2022-03-13 . College of Arts & Sciences at Syracuse University . en-us.
  3. Web site: Jonathan Dee – Story in Literary Fiction . 2022-03-13 . www.storyinliteraryfiction.com.
  4. Web site: An Interview with Jonathan Dee – The Alembic . 2022-03-13 . alembic.providence.edu.
  5. News: 2009-06-12. Up Front: Jonathan Dee. en-US. . 2022-11-20. 0362-4331.
  6. Web site: Columbia University MFA Faculty. https://web.archive.org/web/20140317080533/http://arts.columbia.edu/writing/faculty/adjunct/jonathan-dee. dead. March 17, 2014.
  7. http://www.newschool.edu/writing/faculty.aspx?id=25462 "Faculty"
  8. Web site: Jonathan Dee. asfaculty.syr.edu. en. 2017-05-15.
  9. News: Dee. Interviewed by Jonathan. 1986. The Art of Fiction No. 92. en. Summer-Fall 1986. 100. 2022-11-20. 0031-2037.
  10. News: MacFarquhar. Interviewed by Jonathan Dee, Barbara Jones & Larissa. 1992. The Art of Fiction No. 131. en. Fall 1992. 124. 2022-11-20. 0031-2037.
  11. Web site: National Endowment for the Arts Website . June 29, 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20111016024844/http://nea.gov/features/writers/writersCMS/writer.php?id=06_05 . October 16, 2011 . dead .
  12. Web site: "Eight Columbia Artists and Scholars Receive Guggenheim Fellowships". https://web.archive.org/web/20110607085957/http://news.columbia.edu/oncampus/2382. dead. June 7, 2011.
  13. News: Burton. Susan. 2016-02-16. The Quietly Subversive Fictions of Dana Spiotta. en-US. The New York Times. 2022-11-20. 0362-4331.
  14. News: Eisenstadt . Marnie . Jonathan Dee, a Pulitzer-nominated author, will write his next novel in Syracuse . 20 November 2022 . . 12 September 2017 . en.

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