Personal Life
In 1987, Lethem married the writer and artist Shelley Jackson; they were divorced by 1997. In 2000, he married Julia Rosenberg, a Canadian film executive; they divorced two years later.
As of 2007, Lethem lived in Brooklyn and Berwick, Maine, with his third wife, the filmmaker Amy Barrett, and their son, Everett Barrett Lethem (b. May 23, 2007). In 2010, he was named Disney Professor of Writing at Pomona College in Claremont, California, beginning in Spring 2011.
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