Jonathan Allen Lethem (born February 19, 1964) is an American novelist, essayist and short story writer. His first novel, Gun, with Occasional Music, a genre work that mixed elements of science fiction and detective fiction, was published in 1994. It was followed by three more science fiction novels. In 1999, Lethem published Motherless Brooklyn, a National Book Critics Circle Award-winning novel that achieved mainstream success. In 2003, he published The Fortress of Solitude, which became a New York Times Best Seller. In 2005, he received a MacArthur Fellowship
Series
Books
The Fortress of Solitude
2003
Brooklyn Crime Novel
2023
How we Got Insipid
2006
Chronic City
2009
Amnesia Moon
1995
Gun, With Occasional Music
1994
Kafka Americana
1999
The Arrest
2020
The Disappointment Artist
2005
Shake It Up
Great American Writing on Rock and Pop from Elvis to Jay Z: A Library of America Special Publication
2017
Motherless Brooklyn
1999
More Alive and Less Lonely
On Books and Writers
2017
Fear of Music
2011
As She Climbed Across the Table
1997
The Secret History of Science Fiction
2009
Lucky Alan and Other Stories
2014
A Gambler's Anatomy
2016
Fight of the Century
Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases
2020
This Shape We're In
2001
The Feral Detective
2018
Men and Cartoons
Stories
2004
You Don't Love Me Yet
2007
Half-Minute Horrors
2009
Girl in Landscape
1998
The Wall Of The Sky, The Wall Of The Eye
1996
The Ecstasy of Influence
Nonfictions, Etc.
2011
They Live
2010
Dissident Gardens
2013
