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]
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.[citation needed]
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 Review's 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.
^MacFarquhar, Interviewed by Jonathan Dee, Barbara Jones & Larissa (1992). "The Art of Fiction No. 131". Vol. Fall 1992, no. 124. ISSN0031-2037. Retrieved November 20, 2022.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
