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.