1. Jonathan Dee was born on May 19,1962 and is an American novelist and non-fiction writer.
12 Facts About Jonathan Dee
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Jonathan Dee's fifth novel, The Privileges, was a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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Jonathan Dee graduated from Yale University, where he studied fiction writing with John Hersey.
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Jonathan 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.
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Jonathan Dee is a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, and contributor to Harper's.
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Jonathan Dee taught in the graduate writing programs at Columbia University and The New School, and is currently a professor in the graduate writing program at Syracuse University.
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Jonathan Dee collaborated on the oral biography of Plimpton, "George, Being George", published by Random House in 2008.
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Jonathan Dee interviewed Hersey and co-interviewed Grace Paley for The Paris Reviews The Art of Fiction series.
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Jonathan Dee was nominated for a National Magazine Award in 2010 for criticism in Harper's.
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Jonathan Dee has received fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation.
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Jonathan Dee's 2010 novel, The Privileges, won the 2011 Prix Fitzgerald prize and was a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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Jonathan Dee was the second winner of the St Francis College Literary Prize.