Jonathan Franzen
Auteur de Les Corrections
A propos de l'auteur
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 afficher plus 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) afficher moins
Crédit image: Jonathan Franzen Fotograaf: Greg Martin
Séries
Œuvres de Jonathan Franzen
Selected Essays from: How to be Alone 10 exemplaires
The Republic of Bad Taste 3 exemplaires
How He Came to Be Somewhere 2 exemplaires
encruzilhadas Ed. 2023 1 exemplaire
Emptying The Skies 1 exemplaire
Why Birds Matter 1 exemplaire
Birders: The Central Park Effect 1 exemplaire
2006 1 exemplaire
The Failure. Stories from The Corrections: Das Hörbuch zum Sprachen lernen mit ausgewählten Kurzgeschichten.… (2005) 1 exemplaire
Ambition (in McSweeney's 37 - EGGERS) 1 exemplaire
Sample of Freedom 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
L'homme qui aimait les enfants (1940) — Introduction, quelques éditions — 1,456 exemplaires, 44 critiques
State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America (2008) — Contributeur — 520 exemplaires, 11 critiques
The short end of the Sonnenallee (1995) — Introduction, Translator, quelques éditions — 309 exemplaires, 12 critiques
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2011 (2011) — Contributeur — 290 exemplaires, 6 critiques
Light the Dark: Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Artistic Process (2017) — Contributeur — 143 exemplaires, 4 critiques
Know the Past, Find the Future: The New York Public Library at 100 (2011) — Contributeur — 118 exemplaires, 3 critiques
McSweeney's Issue 37 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) (2011) — Contributeur — 100 exemplaires, 5 critiques
The Review of Contemporary Fiction 1996: The Future of Fiction (1996) — Contributeur — 22 exemplaires
Bringing Back the Birds: Exploring Migration and Preserving Birdscapes throughout the Americas (2019) — Avant-propos — 22 exemplaires, 1 critique
National Geographic Magazine 2018 v233 #1 January (2018) — Contributeur — 13 exemplaires, 1 critique
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Franzen, Jonathan
- Nom légal
- Franzen, Jonathan Earl
- Date de naissance
- 1959-08-17
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Amerikaans
- Lieu de naissance
- Western Springs, Illinois, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- New York, New York, USA
Chicago, Illinois, USA
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Berlin, Germany
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Boulder Creek, California, USA - Études
- Wayne State University (1979)
Swarthmore College (BA | 1981 | German)
Freie Universität Berlin (1981) - Professions
- writer
novelist
essayist - Relations
- Wallace, David Foster (friend)
- Prix et distinctions
- 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) - Courte biographie
- 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
Discussions
Jonathan Franzen's latest, PURITY--will you read it and is he really "America's best novelist"? à Literary Snobs (Septembre 2015)
June 2013: The Twenty-Seventh City à Missouri Readers (Juillet 2013)
1001 April Group Read: [The Corrections] à 1001 Books to read before you die (Mai 2012)
Critiques
Listes
100 New Classics (1)
Unread books (1)
Our digital age (1)
Five star books (1)
Secrets Books (1)
2000s decade (1)
A Novel Cure (2)
My TBR (2)
Obama Reads (1)
Midwestern Books (1)
Family Drama (1)
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 35
- Aussi par
- 26
- Membres
- 37,516
- Popularité
- #485
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 1,019
- ISBN
- 599
- Langues
- 27
- Favoris
- 104