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Jennifer Egan: Novelist and Dickens fan

By Amy Sutherland

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  February 26, 2012

Author Jennifer Egan was recently found on the slopes of Aspen skiing with her two young sons and husband. It was a well-deserved vacation given her novel “A Visit From the Goon Squad’’ won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, among other awards. She’s in town Tuesday to speak at Wellesley College’s Newhouse Center at 4:30 p.m.

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