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Jonathan Franzen

USA  (1959 - )
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About Jonathan Franzen
Jonathan Franzen was born near Chicago in August, 1959, and grew up in Webster Groves, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis. After graduating from Swarthmore College, in 1981, he studied at the Freie Universität in Berlin as a Fulbright scholar and later worked in a seismology lab at Harvard University's Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences.
 
Non fiction
How to Be AloneThe Discomfort Zone: A Personal History
 
Awards
National Book Award for Fiction Best Novel winner (2001) : The Corrections
Oprah's Book Club Best Novel nominee (2001) : The Corrections
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction Best Novel winner (2002) : The Corrections
PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction Best Novel nominee (2002) : The Corrections


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Jonathan Franzen recommends
The Deader the Better
The Deader the Better (2000)
(Leo Waterman, book 6)
G M Ford
"I am utterly beguiled by G.M. Ford's Leo Waterman... Ford writes with a toughness leavened by grace and wit."
Carter Beats the Devil
Carter Beats the Devil (2001)
Glen David Gold
"Here's excellent magic: the hours vanish, the pages turn themselves."
The Lovely Bones
The Lovely Bones (2002)
Alice Sebold
"Sebold has given us a fantasy-fable of great authority, charm, and daring. She's a one-of-a-kind writer."
The Commissariat of Enlightenment
The Commissariat of Enlightenment (2003)
Ken Kalfus
"Wry, humane, precise and beautifully smitten with ideas. "
Ms. Hempel Chronicles
Ms. Hempel Chronicles (2008)
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
"Pure Pleasure."



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