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Jonathan Lethem to join Pomona College faculty

By Carolyn Kellogg
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Novelist Jonathan Lethem will be leaving his home in Brooklyn, N.Y., for sunny Southern California, Pomona College announced Friday.

But first, he’ll have one last eastern fall to enjoy. After a vote of the trustees, he is expected to take his place as the Roy Edward Disney Professor in Creative Writing at Pomona College in spring 2011.

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While Lethem is known for his books set in New York -- including ‘Motherless Brooklyn,’ ‘Fortress of Solitude’ and 2009’s ‘Chronic City’ -- he lived for some time in Berkeley and set his 2007 book ‘You Don’t Love Me Yet’ in Los Angeles. Perhaps Southern California will appear in his future work.

From 2002 to 2008, the Roy Edward Disney Professorship in Creative Writing was held by David Foster Wallace.

-- Carolyn Kellogg

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Carolyn Kellogg

Carolyn Kellogg is a prize-winning writer who served as Books editor of the Los Angeles Times for three years. She joined the L.A. Times in 2010 as staff writer in Books and left in 2018. In 2019, she was a judge of the National Book Award in Nonfiction. Prior to coming to The Times, Kellogg was editor of LAist.com and the web editor of the public radio show Marketplace. She has an MFA in creative writing from the University of Pittsburgh and a BA in English from the University of Southern California.

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