Jonathan Franzen was born near Chicago in August, 1959, and grew up in Webster Groves, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis. After graduating from Swarthmore College, in 1981, he studied at the Freie Universität in Berlin as a Fulbright scholar and later worked in a seismology lab at Harvard University's Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences.
Awards: James Tait Black (2002), NBA (2001) see all
Genres: Literary Fiction
Novels
The Twenty-Seventh City (1988)
Strong Motion (1992)
The Corrections (2001)
Freedom (2010)
Purity (2015)
Strong Motion (1992)
The Corrections (2001)
Freedom (2010)
Purity (2015)
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Books containing stories by Jonathan Franzen

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009 (2009)
(Best American Nonrequired Reading)
edited by
Dave Eggers

The Future Dictionary of America (2004)
edited by
Dave Eggers, Jonathan Safran Foer, Eli Horowitz and Nicole Krauss
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