(CNN) -- Best-selling author Jennifer Egan is having, by all accounts, a great week. She won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel "A Visit from the Goon Squad." She made a deal with HBO to potentially turn the book into a TV series, and she won a spot on Time magazine's 100 most influential list. CNN talked to the author about her success. The following is an edited transcript. CNN: Congratulations on your Pulitzer Prize. It's a well-deserved honor. What were you doing when you received the news? Egan: I was just sitting down to lunch at a neighborhood restaurant when I heard the news. My first reaction was flat-out disbelief. I kept asking my publicist, "Are you sure?"
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Jennifer Egan won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel "A Visit from the Goon Squad"
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Egan also just landed a spot on Time's 100 most influential list
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Egan's inspiration for "Goon Squad": She saw a wallet lying exposed in a woman's bag
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