First in a Decade: A Living Novelist on Time’s Cover
By Robin PogrebinNew York Times - August 11, 2010

 

The new cover of Time Magazine, on sale Friday, will feature Jonathan Franzen on the cover, the first time in 10 years that a living American novelist has been on the cover since Stephen King, in 2000.

The article, by Lev Grossman, is a profile of Mr. Franzen on the occasion of his fourth novel, “Freedom,” the story of an American family, which is due to be published in August. In the past, Time has featured Tom Wolfe, Toni Morrison, George Orwell, John Updike, John le Carré, Norman Mailer, William Faulkner, Vladimir Nabokov and others. Library of America.