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Jonathan Franzen


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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
 
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Novels
   The Twenty-Seventh City (1988)
   Strong Motion (1992)
   The Corrections (2001)
   Freedom (2010)
   Purity (2015)
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Books containing stories by Jonathan Franzen
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By the Book (2014)
Writers On Literature and the Literary Life
edited by
Pamela Paul
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The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009 (2009)
(Best American Nonrequired Reading)
edited by
Dave Eggers

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Awards
2002 James Tait Black Memorial Prize : The Corrections
2001 National Book Award for Fiction : The Corrections
1996 Granta Best of Young American Novelists

Award nominations
2010 Oprah's Book Club Award (nominee) : Freedom
2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (nominee) : Freedom
2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction (nominee) : Freedom
2003 Dublin Literary Award (nominee) : The Corrections
2002 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (nominee) : The Corrections
2002 PEN/Faulkner Award (nominee) : The Corrections
2001 Oprah's Book Club Award (nominee) : The Corrections
2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction (nominee) : The Corrections


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I Hear You're Rich (2023)
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"A true living hero of the American avant-garde."
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Mislaid (2015)
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"A writer of extraordinary talent and range."
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The Middlesteins (2012)
Jami Attenberg
"The Middlesteins had me from its very first pages, but it wasn't until its final pages that I fully appreciated the range of Attenberg's sympathy and the artistry of her storytelling."

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