Pulitzer-winning author has breakfast in Palm Beach with MorseLife literary supporters
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jennifer Egan talked about her creative writing process Feb. 9 as part of MorseLife’s Literary Society Series' “Breakfast with the Authors” on Feb. 9 at The Colony.
The hosts for this year’s Literary Society series are Cynthia Berenson, Penny Blumenstein and Marlene Strauss. Berenson introduced Egan following a welcome from MorseLife President and CEO Keith A. Myers.
Egan shared how she found inspiration for her latest fiction novel, “The Candy House,” which is a testament to the tenacity and transcendence of human longing for connection, family, privacy and love.
“The joy of writing fiction, for me, is in the sense of leaving my life behind and then entering a different world; the sense of discovery,” said Egan. “For me fiction is a portal to the unknown, like those dreams I’ve had of pushing beyond familiar roads into holes or gardens I hadn’t seen before. What I’m describing is a state of potential blindness that I use to get the best material out of myself. But at the same time, as with dreams, I am, of course, drawing from my life, just not directly.”
Egan's novel ''A Visit from the Goon Squad'' won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for fiction and National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction.
This season’s Literary Society will conclude March 9 with a talk by "Horse" author Geraldine Brooks.
Attendance at the breakfast with authors series is by invitation. For more information about MorseLife Health System or the Literary Society Series, visit www.morselifeevents.org, email events@morselife.org or call 561-242-4661.
This article originally appeared on Palm Beach Daily News: Palm Beach breakfast series concludes this season on March 9
