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On this day, August 17, in 1959, Jonathan Franzen was born in Western Springs, Illinois. As a regular contributor to The New Yorker and other magazines, his essays are read by thousands, but it is his novels, especially 2001’s The Corrections (which won a National Book Award and was a finalist for both the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction), that have brought him the most acclaim (along with his rarely restrained sharing of his opinions on numerous topics). His fifth novel, Purity, was published in 2015 to mixed reviews, but still vetted for television syndication (with Daniel Craig as the lead) before cost projections derailed the effort. Today, Mr. Franzen turns 59.

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