Author

Books by Jonathan Franzen

Jonathan Franzen is an American novelist born in 1959. His novel The Corrections (2001) won the National Book Award and marked him as a major American literary figure. Freedom (2010) was a bestseller and critical flashpoint. Crossroads (2021) is the first volume of his planned trilogy A Key to All Mythologies, representing a new formal ambition and a more explicit engagement with religious faith than his previous work. He is also an essayist and birdwatcher who writes frequently about the difficulty of serious culture in a distracted age. His public persona has been shaped as much by controversy as by his fiction.