Jonathan Dee

Jonathan Dee
Dee at the 2014 Brooklyn Book Festival
Born	1962 (age 53–54) New York City
Occupation	Writer
Nationality	American

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.

Early life

Dee was born in New York City. He graduated from Yale University,^[1] where he studied fiction writing with John Hersey.

Career

Dee's first job out of college was at The Paris Review,^[1] 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 six novels, including The Lover of History, The Liberty Campaign, St. Famous, Palladio, The Privileges, and, most recently, A Thousand Pardons. He is a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, and contributor to Harper's. He teaches in the graduate writing programs at Columbia University^[2] and The New School.^[3]

Dee collaborated on the oral biography of Plimpton, "George, Being George", published by Random House in 2008. He interviewed Hersey^[4] and co-interviewed Grace Paley for The Paris Review's The Art of Fiction series.^[5]

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^[6] and the Guggenheim Foundation.^[7] 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

He lives in New York City, and is in a relationship with the writer Dana Spiotta. ^[8]

Bibliography

• The Lover of History (1990) (Houghton Mifflin)
• The Liberty Campaign (1993) (Pocket Books)
• St. Famous (1996) (Doubleday)
• Palladio (2002) (Doubleday)
• The Privileges (2010) (Random House)
• A Thousand Pardons (2013) (Random House)

References

1. Ed. (June 12, 2009). "Up Front: Jonathan Dee". The New York Times.
2. Columbia University MFA Faculty Archived March 17, 2014 at the Wayback Machine
3. "Faculty". The New School. Archived March 19, 2011 at the Wayback Machine
4. Dee, Jonathan. "John Hersey, The Art of Fiction No. 92". The Paris Review. Retrieved October 15, 2014.
5. Dee, Jonathan; Jones, Barbara; MacFarquhar Larissa. "Grace Paley, The Art of Fiction No. 131". The Paris Review.
6. National Endowment for the Arts Website
7. “Eight Columbia Artists and Scholars Receive Guggenheim Fellowships”
8. . The New York Times Magazine.

External links

• Ready-made rebellion: The empty tropes of transgressive fiction
• The Millions Interview: Jonathan Dee
• The New Yorker: Live Chat with Jonathan Dee
• Jonathan Dee on the place of the novel in a money-driven society Clé des langues, 2012
• "Watch Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton as Himself". PBS. May 16, 2014].