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Jonathan Franzen


USA flag (b.1959)

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
 
Series
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Novels
   The Twenty-Seventh City (1988)
   Strong Motion (1992)
   The Corrections (2001)
   Freedom (2010)
   Purity (2015)
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Jonathan Franzen recommends
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I Hear You're Rich (2023)
Diane Williams
"A true living hero of the American avant-garde."
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Mislaid (2015)
Nell Zink
"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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Anthologies containing stories by Jonathan Franzen
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The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009 (2009)
(Best American Nonrequired Reading)
edited by
Dave Eggers
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The Best American Short Stories 1997 (1997)
(Best American Short Stories)
edited by
Annie Proulx and John Edgar Wideman

Awards
National Book Award for Fiction Best Book winner (2001) : The Corrections
Oprah's Book Club Best Book nominee (2001) : The Corrections
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction Best Book winner (2002) : The Corrections
PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction Best Book nominee (2002) : The Corrections
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Best Book nominee (2002) : The Corrections
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Awards Best Novel nominee (2003) : The Corrections
Oprah's Book Club Best Book nominee (2010) : Freedom


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