![]() The family lived in a commune in the pre- gentrified Brooklyn in the northern section of the neighborhood of Gowanus (now called Boerum Hill). His brother Blake became an artist involved in the early New York hip hop scene, and his sister Mara became a photographer, writer, and translator. His father was Protestant (with Scottish and English ancestry) and his mother was Jewish, from a family with roots in Germany, Poland, and Russia. Lethem was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Judith Frank Lethem, a political activist, and Richard Brown Lethem, an avant-garde painter. Since 2011, he has taught creative writing at Pomona College. In 2005, he received a MacArthur Fellowship. In 2003, he published The Fortress of Solitude, which became a New York Times Best Seller. In 1999, Lethem published Motherless Brooklyn, a National Book Critics Circle Award-winning novel that achieved mainstream success. His first novel, Gun, with Occasional Music, a genre work that mixed elements of science fiction and detective fiction, was published in 1994. ![]() Jonathan Allen Lethem ( / ˈ l iː θ əm/ born February 19, 1964) is an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. ![]() ![]() National Book Critics Circle Award, World Fantasy Award ![]()
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