Jonathan Franzen
Autor(a) de The Corrections
About the Author
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 mostrar mais 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) mostrar menos
Image credit: Jonathan Franzen Fotograaf: Greg Martin
Séries
Obras de Jonathan Franzen
Selected Essays from: How to be Alone 10 cópias
The Republic of Bad Taste 3 cópias
Runaway 2 cópias
How He Came to Be Somewhere 2 cópias
Why Birds Matter 1 exemplar(es)
The Failure. Stories from The Corrections: Das Hörbuch zum Sprachen lernen mit ausgewählten Kurzgeschichten.… (2005) 1 exemplar(es)
Sample of Freedom 1 exemplar(es)
2006 1 exemplar(es)
Ambition (in McSweeney's 37 - EGGERS) 1 exemplar(es)
Birders: The Central Park Effect 1 exemplar(es)
Emptying The Skies 1 exemplar(es)
encruzilhadas Ed. 2023 1 exemplar(es)
Associated Works
Light the Dark: Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Artistic Process (2017) — Contribuinte — 138 cópias
Know the Past, Find the Future: The New York Public Library at 100 (2011) — Contribuinte — 116 cópias
Bringing Back the Birds: Exploring Migration and Preserving Birdscapes throughout the Americas (2019) — Prefácio — 21 cópias
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome padrão
- Franzen, Jonathan
- Nome de batismo
- Franzen, Jonathan Earl
- Data de nascimento
- 1959-08-17
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- Amerikaans
- Local de nascimento
- Western Springs, Illinois, USA
- Locais de residência
- New York, New York, USA
Chicago, Illinois, USA
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Berlin, Germany
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Boulder Creek, California, USA - Educação
- Wayne State University (1979)
Swarthmore College (BA | 1981 | German)
Freie Universität Berlin (1981) - Ocupação
- writer
novelist
essayist - Relacionamentos
- Wallace, David Foster (friend)
- Premiações
- 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)
Akademie der Kunste (2010) - Pequena biografia
- 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.
Membros
Discussions
Jonathan Franzen's latest, PURITY--will you read it and is he really "America's best novelist"? em Literary Snobs (Setembro 2015)
June 2013: The Twenty-Seventh City em Missouri Readers (Julho 2013)
1001 April Group Read: [The Corrections] em 1001 Books to read before you die (Maio 2012)
Resenhas
Gah. What a giant mess of a book. Franzen got me invested in the characters and then proceeded to punish me for that, by exposing me to every random thought they ever had. His editor needs to be fired - about half of every page could have been cut. I'm going to finish the damn thing and then throw it at him.
Definitive proof that fine writers don’t always make fine thinkers.
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 33
- Also by
- 26
- Membros
- 37,097
- Popularidade
- #492
- Avaliação
- 3.7
- Resenhas
- 1,014
- ISBNs
- 594
- Idiomas
- 27
- Favorito
- 103
Is it a bad book? Nope.
Should the book have been a lot shorter? Yes.
Did the writer get lost in his own creation? Yep.
The first chapter is strong and introduces a really interesting character, the next 3oo or so pages are a real drag. Good luck with those! Then the books get going and at times Franzen's brilliance shines through, but dear publishers let him do something else please. He didn't have the material for another great American novel, yet.
A novel about a girl called Purity would have been great.… (mais)