This event is part of the Rutgers–Camden MFA Visiting Writers Program, which attracts established and emerging novelists, poets, and creative nonfiction writers to southern New Jersey. The reading is free of charge and open to the public.
Jennifer Egan is the author of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, A Visit from the Goon Squad, which won the National Book Critics Circle award for fiction and is slated to become an HBO series. Egan is also the author of The Invisible Circus, a novel that became a feature film starting Cameron Diaz; Look at Me, a finalist for the National Book Award in fiction in 2001; Emerald City and Other Stories; and The Keep, which was a national best-seller.