Jonathan Franzen
Autor/a de Les correccions
Sobre l'autor
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 mostra'n més 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) mostra'n menys
Crèdit de la imatge: Jonathan Franzen Fotograaf: Greg Martin
Sèrie
Obres de Jonathan Franzen
Selected Essays from: How to be Alone 10 exemplars
The Republic of Bad Taste 3 exemplars
How He Came to Be Somewhere 2 exemplars
Runaway 2 exemplars
Franzen, J. Freiheit 1 exemplars
Emptying The Skies 1 exemplars
encruzilhadas Ed. 2023 1 exemplars
Birders: The Central Park Effect 1 exemplars
Why Birds Matter 1 exemplars
2006 1 exemplars
The Failure. Stories from The Corrections: Das Hörbuch zum Sprachen lernen mit ausgewählten Kurzgeschichten.… (2005) 1 exemplars
Ambition (in McSweeney's 37 - EGGERS) 1 exemplars
Sample of Freedom 1 exemplars
By Jonathan Franzen How to be Alone [Hardcover] 1 exemplars
Obres associades
The short end of the Sonnenallee (1995) — Introduction, Translator, algunes edicions — 304 exemplars
Light the Dark: Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Artistic Process (2017) — Col·laborador — 138 exemplars
Know the Past, Find the Future: The New York Public Library at 100 (2011) — Col·laborador — 116 exemplars
The Review of Contemporary Fiction 1996: The Future of Fiction (1996) — Col·laborador — 21 exemplars
Bringing Back the Birds: Exploring Migration and Preserving Birdscapes throughout the Americas (2019) — Pròleg — 19 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom normalitzat
- Franzen, Jonathan
- Nom oficial
- Franzen, Jonathan Earl
- Data de naixement
- 1959-08-17
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- Amerikaans
- Lloc de naixement
- Western Springs, Illinois, USA
- Llocs de residència
- New York, New York, USA
Chicago, Illinois, USA
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Berlin, Germany
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Boulder Creek, California, USA - Educació
- Wayne State University (1979)
Swarthmore College (BA | 1981 | German)
Freie Universität Berlin (1981) - Professions
- writer
novelist
essayist - Relacions
- Wallace, David Foster (friend)
- Premis i 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)
Akademie der Kunste (2010) - Biografia breu
- 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.
Membres
Converses
Jonathan Franzen's latest, PURITY--will you read it and is he really "America's best novelist"? a Literary Snobs (setembre 2015)
June 2013: The Twenty-Seventh City a Missouri Readers (juliol 2013)
1001 April Group Read: [The Corrections] a 1001 Books to read before you die (maig 2012)
Ressenyes
Llistes
Five star books (1)
100 New Classics (1)
Obama Reads (1)
Unread books (1)
Family Drama (1)
Secrets Books (1)
2000s decade (1)
Our digital age (1)
A Novel Cure (2)
My TBR (2)
Midwestern Books (1)
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 34
- També de
- 26
- Membres
- 36,934
- Popularitat
- #494
- Valoració
- 3.7
- Ressenyes
- 1,011
- ISBN
- 591
- Llengües
- 27
- Preferit
- 103