VJ Books Presents Author Jonathan Franzen!
 Jonathan Franzen was born August 17, 1959 in Western Springs, Illinois. He graduated from Swarthmore College with a degree in German in 1981. As part of his undergraduate education, he studied abroad in Germany during the 1979-80 academic year with Wayne State University's Junior Year in Munich program. He also studied on a Fulbright Scholarship at Freie UniversitŠt Berlin in Berlin in 1981-82.
Franzen sold his first novel, The Twenty-Seventh City, in 1987. He speaks fluent German and spends his time between New York City and Santa Cruz, California.
|
|
Jonathan Franzen Bibliography
Novels
-
The Twenty-Seventh City - 1988
- Strong Motion - 1992
- The Corrections - 2001
- Freedom - 2010
- Purity - 2015
Non-Fiction
- How to Be Alone - 2002
- The Discomfort Zone - 2006
- Farther Away - 2012
Jonathan Franzen Awards
- 1988 Whiting Writers' Award
- 1996 Guggenheim Fellowship
- 2000 Berlin Prize (American Academy in Berlin)
- 2001 National Book Award (Fiction) for The Corrections
- 2001 Salon Book Award (Fiction) for The Corrections
- 2002 James Tait Black Memorial Prize winner (Fiction) for The Corrections
- 2010 Salon Book Award (Fiction) for Freedom
- 2010 Galaxy National Book Awards, International Author of the Year, Freedom
- 2012 Carlos Fuentes Medal (Inaugural award)
- 2013 Welt-Literaturpreis
- 2015 Budapest Grand Prize
Go to top of page
|
|
|
Follow him on Facebook
