Jonathan Franzen

E70042

environmentalist essayist human novelist translator

Jonathan Franzen is an American novelist and essayist best known for his sprawling, character-driven social novels such as "The Corrections" and "Freedom," which explore contemporary family life and cultural anxieties.

Aliases (1)

Franzen ×1

Statements (53)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	environmentalist → essayist → human → novelist → translator →
awardReceived	American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature → James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction → National Book Award for Fiction → Whiting Award →
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America →
dateOfBirth	1959-08-17 →
educatedAt	Freie Universität Berlin NERFINISHED → Swarthmore College →
familyName	Franzen →
fieldOfWork	essays → fiction → literature →
genre	essay → literary fiction → social novel →
givenName	Jonathan →
influencedBy	Franz Kafka → Karl Kraus → Thomas Pynchon → William Gaddis →
languageOfWorkOrName	English →
movement	contemporary American literature → postmodern literature →
name	Jonathan Franzen →
nationality	American →
nominatedFor	Pulitzer Prize for Fiction →
notableIdea	critique of consumer culture → exploration of contemporary family life →
notableWork	Crossroads → Farther Away → Freedom → How to Be Alone → Purity → Strong Motion → The Corrections → The Discomfort Zone → The Kraus Project → The Twenty-Seventh City →
occupation	essayist → novelist → translator →
placeOfBirth	Western Springs, Illinois NERFINISHED →
residence	New York City → Santa Cruz, California →
sexOrGender	male →
spouse	Kathryn Chetkovich →
workFocusesOn	American middle-class families → cultural anxieties in late 20th and early 21st century America →

Referenced by (5)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Jonathan Franzen ("Franzen") →	familyName
Jonathan →	hasNotableBearer
Don DeLillo →	influenced
Jonathan Franzen →	name
National Book Award for Nonfiction →	notableWinner