Jonathan Franzen

: January 4, 2024
: Novelist

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Full Name	Jonathan Franzen
Occupation	Novelist
Date Of Birth	Aug 17, 1959(1959-08-17)
Age	65
Birthplace	Western Springs
Country	United States
Birth City	Illinois
Horoscope	Leo

Jonathan Franzen Biography

Name	Jonathan Franzen
Birthday	Aug 17
Birth Year	1959
Place Of Birth	Western Springs
Home Town	Illinois
Birth Country	United States
Birth Sign	Leo

Jonathan Franzen is one of the most popular and richest Novelist who was born on August 17, 1959 in Western Springs, Illinois, United States. A famous American writer, he is famous for novels like The Corrections and Freedom. The novel is about an old Midwestern couple with three children.

He was close to author He was close friends with writer David Foster Wallace..

Franzen was born in Western Springs, Illinois, the son of Irene (née Super) and Earl T. Franzen. His father, raised in Minnesota, was the son of an immigrant from Sweden; his mother’s ancestry was Eastern European. Franzen grew up in an old neighborhood, Webster Woods Drive in Webster Groves, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri, and 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. While there, he met Michael A. Martone, on whom he would later base the character Walter Berglund in Freedom. He also studied on a Fulbright Scholarship at Freie Universität Berlin in Berlin in 1981-82; he speaks fluent German. Franzen was married in 1982 and moved with his wife to Somerville, Massachusetts to pursue a career as a novelist. While writing his first novel, The Twenty-Seventh City, he worked as a research assistant at Harvard University’s Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, coauthoring several dozen papers. In September 1987, a month after he and his wife moved to New York City, Franzen sold The Twenty-Seventh City to Farrar Straus & Giroux.

The Twenty-Seventh City, published in 1988, is set in Franzen’s hometown, St. Louis, and deals with the city’s fall from grace, St. Louis having been the “fourth city” in the 1870s. This sprawling novel was warmly received and established Franzen as an author to watch. In a conversation with novelist Donald Antrim for Bomb Magazine, Franzen described The Twenty-Seventh City as “a conversation with the literary figures of my parents’ generation[,] the great sixties and seventies Postmoderns.”, adding in a later interview “I was a skinny, scared kid trying to write a big novel. The mask I donned was that of a rhetorically airtight, extremely smart, extremely knowledgeable middle- aged writer.”

He got married to Valerie Cornell in 1982; they divorced later.

Jonathan Franzen Net Worth

Net Worth	$10 Million
Source Of Income	Novelist
House	Living in own house.

Jonathan Franzen is one of the richest Novelist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jonathan Franzen 's net worth $10 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

While at Wayne State University, he went on to study overseas in Germany and eventually became fluent in German.

He was awarded a National Book Award and was an official finalist in the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

Jonathan Earl Franzen (born August 17, 1959) is an American novelist and essayist. His 2001 novel The Corrections, a sprawling, satirical family drama, 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 of Time magazine alongside the headline “Great American Novelist”.

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In 1996, while still working on The Corrections, Franzen published a literary manifesto in Harper’s Magazine entitled Perchance to Dream. Referencing manifestos written by Philip Roth and Tom Wolfe, among others, Franzen grappled with the novelist’s role in an advanced media culture which seemed to no longer need the novel. In the end, Franzen rejects the goal of writing a great social novel about issues and ideas, in favor of focusing on the internal lives of characters and their emotions. Given the huge success of The Corrections, this essay offers a prescient look into Franzen’s goals as both a literary and commercially minded author.

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Jonathan Ranked on the list of most popular Novelist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Jonathan Franzen celebrates birthday on August 17 of every year.

In September 2001, The Corrections was selected for Oprah Winfrey’s book club. Franzen initially participated in the selection, sitting down for a lengthy interview with Oprah and appearing in B-roll footage in his hometown of St. Louis (described in an essay in How To Be Alone titled “Meet Me In St. Louis”). In October 2001, however, The Oregonian printed an article in which Franzen expressed unease with the selection. In an interview on National Public Radio’s Fresh Air, he expressed his worry that the Oprah logo on the cover dissuaded men from reading the book:

What is Jonathan Franzen known for?

Jonathan Franzen, (born August 17, 1959, Western Springs, Illinois, U.S.), American novelist and essayist whose sprawling multilayered novels about contemporary America elicited critical acclaim.

Where should I start with Jonathan Franzen?

The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen.
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen.
How to be Alone by Jonathan Franzen.
Purity by Jonathan Franzen.
The Discomfort Zone by Jonathan Franzen.
The Twenty-Seventh City by Jonathan Franzen.
The Kraus Project by Jonathan Franzen.
Farther Away by Jonathan Franzen.

How much does Jonathan Franzen make?

Jonathan Franzen Net Worth: Jonathan Franzen in an American novelist and essayist who has a net worth of $10 million dollars. Jonathan Franzen is probably most famous for being a National Book Award winning author and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.