Question: Who is an american novelist who created The Keep?

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Thomas Steinbeck: Thomas Myles Steinbeck (August 2, 1944 – August 11, 2016) was an American novelist, screenwriter, photographer, and journalist.  He published numerous works of fiction, including short stories and novels.  He was the elder son of American novelist John Steinbeck.

Sinclair Lewis: Harry Sinclair Lewis (February 7, 1885 – January 10, 1951), better known as Sinclair Lewis, was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright.  In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, which was awarded "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters."  His works are known for their insightful and critical views of American capitalism and materialism between the wars.  He is also respected for his strong characterizations of modern working women.  H. L. Mencken wrote of him, "[If] there was ever a novelist among us with an authentic call to the trade ... it is this red-haired tornado from the Minnesota wilds."  He has been honored by the U.S. Postal Service with a postage stamp in the Great Americans series.

Jennifer Egan: Jennifer Egan (born September 7, 1962) is an American novelist and short story writer who lives in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.  Egan's novel "A Visit from the Goon Squad" won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction.

David Rubin (author): David George Rubin (March 27, 1924 - February 2, 2008) was an American novelist and translator.  He is most well known for his translations of the Indian novelist and essayist Munshi Premchand and the Indian poet and novelist Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala'.

The Keep (Egan novel): The Keep (2006, ISBN  ) is a novel by Jennifer Egan which became a National Bestseller, a New York Times and San Francisco Chronicle Notable Book, and a Chicago Tribune, Kansas City Star, and Rocky Mountain News Best Book of the Year.  "The Keep" is a story about two cousins involved in a haunting business venture that evokes a horrifying tale from their past.

Jonathan Franzen: Jonathan Earl Franzen (born August 17, 1959) is an American novelist and essayist.  His 2001 novel "The Corrections", a sprawling, satirical family drama, drew widespread critical acclaim, earned Franzen a National Book Award, was a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction finalist, earned a James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.  His novel "Freedom" (2010) garnered similar praise and led to an appearance on the cover of "Time" magazine alongside the headline "Great American Novelist".

Mari Tomasi: Mari Tomasi (1907-1965) was an American novelist who portrayed the lives of Italian immigrants in New England.  Literature professor Thomas J. Ferraro calls her "the first significant Italian American woman novelist."  Tomasi also worked as a journalist and historian, and served a term in the Vermont House of Representatives.

Martha Gellhorn: Martha Ellis Gellhorn (November 8, 1908 – February 15, 1998) was an American novelist, travel writer, and journalist, who is now considered one of the greatest war correspondents of the 20th century.  She reported on virtually every major world conflict that took place during her 60-year career.  Gellhorn was also the third wife of American novelist Ernest Hemingway, from 1940 to 1945.  At the age of 89, ill and almost completely blind, she died in 1998 in an apparent suicide.  The Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism is named after her.

The Goose-Step (book): The Goose-step: A Study of American Education is a book, published in 1923, by the American novelist and muckraking journalist Upton Sinclair.  It is an investigation into the consequences of plutocratic capitalist control of American colleges and universities.  Sinclair writes, “Our educational system is not a public service, but an instrument of special privilege; its purpose is not to further the welfare of mankind, but merely to keep America capitalist."  (p. 18)

Charles Brockden Brown: Charles Brockden Brown (January 17, 1771 – February 22, 1810) was an American novelist, historian, and editor of the Early National period.  He is generally regarded by scholars as the most important American novelist before James Fenimore Cooper.  He is the most frequently studied and republished practitioner of the "early American novel," or the US novel between 1789 and roughly 1820.  Although Brown was not the first American novelist, as some early criticism claimed, the breadth and complexity of his achievement as a writer in multiple genres (novels, short stories, essays and periodical writings of every sort, poetry, historiography, reviews) makes him a crucial figure in US literature and culture of the 1790s and first decade of the 19th century, and a significant public intellectual in the wider Atlantic print culture and public sphere of the era of the French Revolution.

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Answer: Jennifer Egan