Jonathan Franzen
Autor de Las Correcciones
Sobre El 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 mostrar más 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
Créditos de la imagen: Jonathan Franzen Fotograaf: Greg Martin
Series
Obras de Jonathan Franzen
Selected Essays from: How to be Alone 10 copias
The Republic of Bad Taste 3 copias
How He Came to Be Somewhere 2 copias
Runaway 2 copias
Emptying The Skies 1 copia
Birders: The Central Park Effect 1 copia
2006 1 copia
The Failure. Stories from The Corrections: Das Hörbuch zum Sprachen lernen mit ausgewählten Kurzgeschichten.… (2005) 1 copia
Sample of Freedom 1 copia
Why Birds Matter 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
Light the Dark: Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Artistic Process (2017) — Contribuidor — 132 copias
Know the Past, Find the Future: The New York Public Library at 100 (2011) — Contribuidor — 115 copias
Bringing Back the Birds: Exploring Migration and Preserving Birdscapes throughout the Americas (2019) — Prólogo — 14 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Franzen, Jonathan
- Nombre legal
- Franzen, Jonathan Earl
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1959-08-17
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- Amerikaans
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Western Springs, Illinois, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- New York, New York, USA
Chicago, Illinois, USA
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Berlin, Germany
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Boulder Creek, California, USA - Educación
- Wayne State University (1979)
Swarthmore College (BA | 1981 | German)
Freie Universität Berlin (1981) - Ocupaciones
- writer
novelist
essayist - Relaciones
- Wallace, David Foster (friend)
- Premios y honores
- 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) - Biografía breve
- 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.
Miembros
Debates
Jonathan Franzen's latest, PURITY--will you read it and is he really "America's best novelist"? en Literary Snobs (septiembre 2015)
June 2013: The Twenty-Seventh City en Missouri Readers (julio 2013)
1001 April Group Read: [The Corrections] en 1001 Books to read before you die (mayo 2012)
Reseñas
Listas
100 New Classics (1)
Obama Reads (1)
Unread books (1)
Family Drama (1)
Five star books (1)
My TBR (2)
2000s decade (1)
A Novel Cure (2)
Midwestern Books (1)
Our digital age (1)
Secrets Books (1)
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 29
- También por
- 26
- Miembros
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- Popularidad
- #507
- Valoración
- 3.7
- Reseñas
- 993
- ISBNs
- 587
- Idiomas
- 26
- Favorito
- 103