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.
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)
Non fiction show
Omnibus editions show
Jonathan Franzen recommends
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."
More recommendations
Anthologies containing stories by Jonathan Franzen
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009 (2009)
(Best American Nonrequired Reading)
edited by
Dave Eggers
The Best American Short Stories 1997 (1997)
(Best American Short Stories)
edited by
Annie Proulx and John Edgar Wideman
Awards
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