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Jonathan Franzen
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American novelist and essayist known for The Corrections and Freedom, whose essays appear in The New Yorker.
Biography
Jonathan Earl Franzen (born August 17, 1959) is an American novelist, essayist and short-story writer. His novel The Corrections drew widespread critical acclaim, earned a National Book Award, was a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction finalist, earned a James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. His novel Freedom received similar praise and led to an appearance on the cover of Time magazine with the headline "Great American Novelist." Crossroads, published in 2021, is the first in a projected trilogy.
Franzen has contributed to The New Yorker since 1994. His 1996 Harper's essay "Perchance to Dream" bemoaned the state of contemporary literature. Oprah Winfrey's 2001 book club selection of The Corrections prompted a well-publicized feud between Franzen and the talk show host.
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Books by Jonathan Franzen
Pureza
A multigenerational story exploring love, parenthood and sexual politics, told through Purity "Pip" Tyler as she seeks her father's identity across the United States, South America and pre-fall East Germany, and involving a charismatic hacker.