Jonathan Franzen
Jonathan Franzen
Jonathan Earl Franzenis 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 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. His novel Freedomgarnered similar praise and led to an appearance on the cover of Time magazine alongside the headline "Great American Novelist"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth17 August 1959
CountryUnited States of America
Jonathan Franzen quotes about
We may freak out globally, but we suffer locally.
There is, after all, a kind of happiness in unhappiness, if it's the right unhappiness.
Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive– my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity.
I had a Viking sense of entitlement to whatever provisions I could plunder.
You see more sitting still than chasing after.