Experts
Jonathan Franzen
Author
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From an essay on bird watching. Read More
April 14, 2008 | In Arts & Culture, Environment
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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? Read More
April 14, 2008 | In Arts & Culture, Business & Economics, Media & Internet
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Why do you find ignorance interesting?
Endless stuff of comedy. Read More
April 14, 2008 | In Inspiration & Wisdom
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Jonathan Franzen on Memory and Memoir
Franzen discusses fiction, non-fiction and the need to draw the distinction. Read More
April 14, 2008 | In Arts & Culture, History
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Jonathan Franzen on his book, Imperial Bedroom. Read More
April 14, 2008 | In Inspiration & Wisdom
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The importance of tone. Read More
April 14, 2008 | In Arts & Culture
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Jonathan Franzen on Overrated Books
What's all the fuss about? Read More
April 14, 2008 | In Arts & Culture
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Jonathan Franzen on Underappreciated Books
Jane Smiley's "Greenlanders," among others. Read More
April 14, 2008 | In Arts & Culture
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Which writers inform your work?
Franzen's literary touchstones, decades in, decades out. Read More
April 14, 2008 | In Arts & Culture
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What's on your desert island reading list?
Why not take the opportunity to learn a language? Read More
April 14, 2008 | In Arts & Culture
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Jonathan Franzen on China's Growth
Jonathan Franzen discusses the potential for China's economic collapse. Read More
April 14, 2008 | In Business & Economics, Environment, World
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What accounts for China's disregard of nature?
Hunger. Read More
April 14, 2008 | In Environment, World
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What was your experience of China?
China made America feel very old and tired, Franzen says. Read More
April 14, 2008 | In Environment, World
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Jonathan Franzen on Midwestern Values
Jonathan Franzen on growing up in the Midwest in the 1970s. Read More
April 14, 2008 | In Arts & Culture, History, Politics & Policy
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Innocence prolonged, innocence lost. Read More
April 14, 2008 | In Arts & Culture
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.
