Jonathan Franzen

Jonathan Earl Franzen is 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 Dublin Literary Award. His novel Freedom (2010) garnered similar praise and led to an appearance on the cover of Time magazine alongside the headline "Great American Novelist". Franzen's latest novel Crossroads was published in 2021, and is the first in a projected trilogy.

17 August 1959

Born on the same birth date (17 August 1959): David Koresh • Eric Schlosser • Jacek Kazimierski

Born on the same birth day (17 August): Alex Elisala • Alexander Briant • Colin James • Evelyn Ankers • Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. • Gail Berman • Jack Conklin • Janet Lewis • John III Sobieski • Keith Dabengwa • Korrie Layun Rampan • Lalla Carlsen • Leopold Nowak • Lida Moser • Mick Malthouse • Patrick Manning • Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York • Sarah Sjöström • Seamus Mallon • Ted Hughes

Born in the same month (August 1959): Eric Schlosser • Florent Vollant • Gustavo Cerati • Joyce Sims • Koenraad Elst • Mark Jackson (Australian footballer) • Martin Atkins • Pia Gjellerup • Ralph Krueger • Ramón Díaz • Richard Scudamore