An award-winning essayist, journalist, and fiction writer, Jonathan Franzen is best known for his novels Freedom (2010) and The Corrections (2001). This essay was published in the November 29, 2004, issue of the New Yorker. It can be considered a literacy narrative because it is organized around reading (comics, especially Peanuts), writing (a grade-school play), and other related activities (the “Homonym Spelldown”). Every scene seems to be about developing literacy in some way.
