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Author photo. Jonathan Franzen Fotograaf: Greg Martin

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Jonathan Franzen

Author of The Corrections

Includes the names: Jonathan Franzen, Jonathan Frantzen, Johnathan Franzen, by Jonathan Franzen, ג׳ונתן פראנזן, ג'ונתן פראנזן, Джонатан Франзен

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Jonathan Franzen was born in Western Springs, Illinois on August 17, 1959. He graduated from Swarthmore College in 1981, and went on to study at the Freie University in Berlin as a Fulbright scholar. He worked in a seismology lab at Harvard University's Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences after graduation. His works include The Twenty-Seventh City (1988), Strong Motion (1992), How to Be Alone (2002), and The Discomfort Zone (2006). The Corrections (2001) won a National Book Award and the 2002 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. Freedom (2010) is an Oprah Book Club selection. He also won a Whiting Writers' Award in 1988 and the American Academy's Berlin Prize in 2000. He is also a frequent contributor to Harper's and The New Yorker. In 2015 his title Purity made The New Yort Times and New Zealand Best Seller List. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from The Corrections… (more)
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Franzen, Jonathan
Legal name
Franzen, Jonathan Earl
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Date of birth
1959-08-17
Date of death
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Gender
male
Nationality
USA
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Birthplace
Western Springs, Illinois, USA
Place of death
Cause of death
Places of residence
New York, New York, USA
Chicago, Illinois, USA
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Berlin, Germany
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Education
Wayne State University (1979)
Swarthmore College (BA | 1981 | German)
Freie Universität Berlin (1981)
Occupations
writer
novelist
essayist
Relationships
Wallace, David Foster (friend)
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Awards and honors
Whiting Writers' Award (1988)
Granta's Best Of Young American Novelists (1996)
Fulbright Scholarship (1981)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (2012)
Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (2012)
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1959 in Western Springs / Illinois geboren, wuchs in einer Vorstadt von St. Louis auf. 1988 veröffentlichte er den Roman "The Twenty-Seventh City", 1992 "Strong Motion". Für seinen dritten Roman und sensationellen Erfolg "The Corrections" erhielt er 2001 den National Book Award verliehen. Schon vorher hat ihn die Zeitschrift The New Yorker unter die "Twenty Writers for the 21st Century" gerechnet. Jonathan Franzen lebt in New York.
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