My name is Jonathan Franzen
Jonathan Franzen is an award-winning American novelist and essayist. Franzen was born in Chicago, Illinois, raised in Webster Groves, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri, and educated at Swarthmore College. He also studied on a Fulbright Scholarship in Germany. He lives on the Upper East Side of New York City, and writes for The New Yorker magazine. Franzen’s “The Corrections,” a novel of social criticism, garnered considerable critical acclaim in the United States. It became one of the best-selling works of literary fiction of the 21st century and won both the 2001 National Book Award for Fiction and the 2002 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction.
My Ideas
- Jonathan Franzen Reads
- From an essay on bird watching.
- Do you regret your run-in with Oprah?
- Given the chance to do it over, would Franzen have wanted The Corrections to be part of Oprah's book club?
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