Jonathan Franzen (born August 17, 1959) is an 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.
The Twenty-Seventh City, published in 1988, is set in Franzen's hometown, St Louis, and deals...
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Jonathan Franzen (born August 17, 1959) is an 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.
The Twenty-Seventh City, published in 1988, is set in Franzen's hometown, St Louis, and deals with the city's fall from grace, its having been the "fourth city" in the 1870s. This sprawling novel was warmly received, and established Franzen as an author to watch.
Strong Motion (1992) focuses on a dysfunctional family, the Hollands, and uses seismic events on the American East Coast as a metaphor for the quakes that occur in family life.
Franzen's The Corrections, a novel of social criticism, garnered considerable critical acclaim in the United States, winning both the 2001 National Book Award for Fiction and the 2002 James Tait Black...
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