The discomfort zone a personal history

Main Author:	Franzen, Jonathan.
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006.
Edition:	1st ed.
Subjects:	Franzen, Jonathan. Authors, American > 20th century > Biography.

Physical Description:	195 p. ; 22 cm.
ISBN:	0374299196 (alk. paper)
Author Notes:	Jonathan Franzen was born in Western Springs, Illinois on August 17, 1959. He graduated from Swarthmore College in 1981, and went on to study at the Freie University in Berlin as a Fulbright scholar. He worked in a seismology lab at Harvard University's Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences after graduation. His works include The Twenty-Seventh City (1988), Strong Motion (1992), How to Be Alone (2002), and The Discomfort Zone (2006). The Corrections (2001) won a National Book Award and the 2002 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. Freedom (2010) is an Oprah Book Club selection. He also won a Whiting Writers' Award in 1988 and the American Academy's Berlin Prize in 2000. He is also a frequent contributor to Harper's and The New Yorker. In 2015 his title Purity made The New Yort Times and New Zealand Best Seller List. (Bowker Author Biography)