Jonathan Franzen

Jonathan Franzen

Jonathan Franzen was born in 1959 and is the author of four novels – The Twenty-Seventh City (1988), Strong Motion (1992), The Corrections (2001), Freedom (2010), – a collection of essays, How to Be Alone (2002), a memoir, The Discomfort Zone (2006) and a translation of Spring Awakening, a play by Frank Wedekind (2007), and most recently, The Kraus Project, a translation and consideration of Karl Kraus’s essays. His honours include a Whiting Writers Award in 1988, a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1996, the American Academy’s Berlin Prize in 2000, and the National Book Award (for The Corrections) in 2001. He writes frequently for the New Yorker, and lives in New York City.

Books by Jonathan Franzen

- Thomas Brussig, Introduction by Jonathan Franzen, Translated by Jonathan Franzen and Jenny Watson

The Short End of the Sonnenallee

- Jonathan Franzen

Crossroads

- Jonathan Franzen

Freedom

- Jonathan Franzen

The Corrections

- Jonathan Franzen

What If We Stopped Pretending?

- Jonathan Franzen

The End of the End of the Earth

- J. G. Ballard, Jean-Dominque Bauby, Penelope Fitzgerald, Jonathan Franzen, Hilary Mantel, Alexander Masters, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Tim O’Brien, Annie Proulx and Lorna Sage

Matchbook Classics Box Set

- Jonathan Franzen

Strong Motion

- Jonathan Franzen

The Twenty-Seventh City

- Jonathan Franzen

Purity

- Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, Introduction by Jonathan Franzen

The Martin Beck series - The Laughing Policeman (The Martin Beck series, Book 4)

- Jonathan Franzen

The Kraus Project

- Jonathan Franzen

Farther Away

- Jonathan Franzen

The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History

- Jonathan Franzen

How to be Alone

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