Jonathan Franzen
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About
An American novelist, he is best known for works such as The Corrections and Freedom. The latter novel focuses on an elderly Midwestern couple and their three children.
Before Fame
While attending Wayne State University, he studied abroad in Germany and became fluent in German.
Trivia
He won a National Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Family Life
He married Valerie Cornell in 1982; they later divorced.
Associated With
He was close friends with writer David Foster Wallace.
