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Jonathan Franzen
Jonathan Earl Franzen is an American novelist and essayist. His 2001 novel The Corrections drew widespread critical acclaim, earned Franzen a National Book Award, was a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction finalist, earned a James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. His novel Freedom (2010) garnered similar praise and led to an appearance on the cover…
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culture · American writer (born 1959) · novelist · writer · essayist · opinion journalist · translator · also Jonathan Franzen, Jonathan Earl Franzen, Franzen
Born 17 August 1959 · Q316607
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2026· 2 entries
A short story titled "A Talent for Seeming", excerpted from the next installment of the trilogy, was published by The New Yorker
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2021· 8 entries
Chicago Tribune: Jonathan Franzen’s new novel ‘Crossroads’ is set in the Chicago ‘burbs and launches a trilogy. He knows you already have an opinion about it.
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Vox: Jonathan Franzen’s Crossroads is an opus on humiliation. It’s very good.
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USA Today: Jonathan Franzen makes the ordinary literary in superb domestic epic 'Crossroads'
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The Guardian: Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen review – a fine start to a family trilogy
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AV Club: Jonathan Franzen sticks with what works—and loses what doesn’t—in the excellent Crossroads
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The Guardian: Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen review – spiritual successor to The Corrections
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The Guardian: Jonathan Franzen: ‘I just write it like I see it and that gets me in trouble’
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Wall Street Journal: Jonathan Franzen, With Mom in Mind, Softens His Edge
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2020· 2 entries
The Guardian: Jonathan Franzen is back! With the grandest-sounding novel of 2021
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Franzen's publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux announced the publication of Franzen's new novel, Crossroads, the first volume in a trilogy titled A Key to All Mythologies
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2018· 2 entries
Yahoo: Review: A new collection of essays by Jonathan Franzen
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Franzen appeared on CBS This Morning – Saturday to discuss his love of birds and birdwatching
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2016· 3 entries
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Daily Variety reported that the novel was in the process of being adapted into a 20-hour limited series for Showtime by Todd Field who would share writing duties with Franzen and the playwright Sir David Hare
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Franzen appeared on Jeopardy
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2015· 1 entry
Franzen appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and CBS This Morning to promote the release of Purity
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2014· 1 entry
The New York Times Artsbeat Blog reported that the novel, titled Purity, would be out in September
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2013· 2 entries
A feature-length documentary based on Franzen's essay "Emptying the Skies" was released in 2013.
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Franzen published The Kraus Project
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2012· 3 entries
Franzen revealed that he currently had "a four-page, single-spaced proposal" for a fifth novel he was currently working on, although he went on to suggest that while he had a proposal there was no guarantee that what was
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Franzen delivered the commencement address at Cowell College, UC Santa Cruz
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Published Farther Away, a collection of essays dealing with such topics as his love of birds, his friendship with David Foster Wallace, and his thoughts on technology
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2011· 3 entries
Observer: Jonathan Franzen to Publish Another Essay Collection in 2012
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Franzen delivered the commencement address at Kenyon College to the class of 2011
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It was announced that Franzen would write a multi-part television adaptation of The Corrections in collaboration with The Squid and the Whale director Noah Baumbach for HBO
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2010· 7 entries
Appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show to promote Freedom where they discussed that book and the controversy over his reservations about her picking The Corrections and what that would entail
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Oprah Winfrey announced that Jonathan Franzen's Freedom would be an Oprah book club selection, the first of the last season of The Oprah Winfrey Show
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Franzen appeared on Fresh Air to discuss Freedom in the wake of its release
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A second excerpt — titled "Agreeable" — was published, also in The New Yorker
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Franzen appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show in support of her selection of Freedom for Oprah's Book Club
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At an event at the Serpentine Pavilion in London celebrating the launch of Freedom, Franzen's glasses were stolen from his face by a gate-crasher, who jokingly attempted to ransom them for $100,000 before being apprehend
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Oprah's Book Club selection (for Freedom)
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2009· 2 entries
Franzen made an appearance alongside David Bezmozgis at the New Yorker Festival at the Cedar Lake Theatre, reading a portion of his forthcoming novel
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Franzen published an excerpt from Freedom, his novel in progress, in The New Yorker
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2008· 1 entry
“I Just Called To Say I Love You”
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2006· 1 entry
Franzen guest starred alongside Michael Chabon, Tom Wolfe, and Gore Vidal in The Simpsons episode "Moe'N'a Lisa", which first aired November 19, 2006
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2004· 1 entry
Franzen published "The Discomfort Zone", a personal essay about his childhood and family life in Missouri and his love of Charles M
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2002· 3 entries
Awarded James Tait Black Memorial Prize (2002).
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Franzen appeared on Charlie Rose (October 30, 2002) to discuss his essay collection How to Be Alone
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Franzen published a critique of the novels of William Gaddis, entitled "Mr
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2001· 5 entries
Awarded National Book Award for Fiction (2001).
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Awarded National Book Award for The Corrections (2001).
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Of The Corrections led to a much publicized feud with the talk show host
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Franzen appeared on Charlie Rose, on November 21, 2001 to discuss The Corrections; and again on December 27 after winning the National Book Award for The Corrections
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“s Pulitzer Prize-nominated The Corrections, contained”
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1996· 4 entries
Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship (1996).
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While still working on The Corrections, Franzen published a literary manifesto in Harper's Magazine entitled "Perchance to Dream"
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Granta's Best of Young American Novelists
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Franzen appeared on Charlie Rose with friend and fellow author David Foster Wallace and author Mark Leyner to debate "The Future of American Fiction
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1988· 1 entry
Is set in Franzen's hometown, St
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1986· 2 entries
“s theater department for $50 in 1986 and that it had sat in a drawer for 20 years since. After the Broadway show stirred up so much interest, Franzen said he was inspired to publish it because”
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And that it had sat in a drawer for 20 years since
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1982· 2 entries
When in his early twenties, Franzen married fellow writer Valerie Cornell
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And moved with his wife to Somerville, Massachusetts, to pursue a career as a novelist
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1959· 1 entry
Born 1959-08-17.
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