Jonathan Lethem is the author of the novels Gun, with Occasional Music; Amnesia Moon; Girl in Landscape; and Motherless Brooklyn, for which he won the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has also written a collection of stories, The Wall of the Sky, the Wall of the Eye. His latest novel, The Fortress of Solitude, will be available from Doubleday in fall 2003. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.