| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - After working in a Seismology Lab at Harvard, Franzen wrote two well-received but commercially minor novels, THE TWENTY-SEVENTH CITY and STRONG MOTION. In 1996 Franzen wrote an essay for Harper's magazine titled Perchance to Dream: In the Age of Images, a Reason to Write Novels, that discussed the plight of the American novel in an age of television and film, and particularly mourned the lack of
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