Experts
Jonathan Franzen
Author
From an essay on bird watching. Read More
Like James Frey, Jonathan Franzen had a colorful public controversy with Oprah and her book club. Given the chance to do it over, would the author of The Corrections handled it differently? Read More
Endless stuff of comedy. Read More
Franzen discusses fiction, non-fiction and the need to draw the distinction. Read More
Jonathan Franzen on his book, Imperial Bedroom. Read More
The importance of tone. Read More
What's all the fuss about? Read More
Jane Smiley's "Greenlanders," among others. Read More
Franzen's literary touchstones, decades in, decades out. Read More
Why not take the opportunity to learn a language? Read More
Jonathan Franzen discusses the potential for China's economic collapse. Read More
China made America feel very old and tired, Franzen says. Read More
Jonathan Franzen on growing up in the Midwest in the 1970s. Read More
Innocence prolonged, innocence lost. Read More
About Jonathan Franzen
Jonathan Franzen is an award-winning American novelist and essayist. Franzen was born in Chicago, Illinois, raised in Webster Groves, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri, and educated at Swarthmore College. He also studied on a Fulbright Scholarship in Germany. He lives on the Upper East Side of New York City, and writes for The New Yorker magazine. Franzen's "The Corrections," a novel of social criticism, garnered considerable critical acclaim in the United States. It became one of the best-selling works of literary fiction of the 21st century and won both the 2001 National Book Award for Fiction and the 2002 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction.