Donald Antrim
Born1958 (age 65–66)
Sarasota, Florida, U.S.
OccupationProfessor
LanguageEnglish
Alma materBrown University
GenresNovels, short stories, memoir
Literary movementPostmodernism
Years active1993–present
Notable worksElect Mr. Robinson for a Better World (1993)
The Verificationist (2000)
Notable awardsMacArthur fellowship

Donald Antrim (born 1958) is an American novelist. His first novel, Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World, was published in 1993. In 1999, The New Yorker named him as among the 20 best writers under the age of 40.[1] In 2013, he was named a MacArthur Fellow.[2]

Life

Antrim was born in Sarasota, Florida.[3] After graduating from Woodberry Forest School in 1977, Antrim graduated from Brown University, taught prose fiction at the graduate school of New York University, and was the Mary Ellen von der Heyden Fellow for Fiction at the American Academy in Berlin, Germany in Spring 2009. Antrim teaches in the MFA program at Columbia University and lives in Brooklyn.[4]

Antrim is a frequent contributor of fiction to The New Yorker and has written two other critically acclaimed novels, The Verificationist and The Hundred Brothers, the latter of which was a finalist for the 1998 PEN/Faulkner Award in fiction.[5]

He is also the author of The Afterlife, a 2006 memoir about his mother, Louanne Self.[6] He has received grants and awards from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. In 2013, he received a fellowship from the MacArthur Foundation.[7]

Family

Antrim is the brother of artist Terry Leness and the son of Harry Antrim, a scholar of T. S. Eliot.

Bibliography

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Novels

Short fiction

Collections
Stories
Stories excerpted from novels

Non-fiction

Books
Essays and reporting

See also

References

  1. ^ 'New Yorker' Publishes 'Under 40' Fiction List - 6/14/1999 - Publishers Weekly.
  2. ^ List of 2013 'Genius Grant' recipients Archived September 25, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ The O. Henry Prize Stories 2013. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. September 10, 2013. ISBN 978-0-345-80326-9.
  4. ^ "Donald Antrim | Columbia University School of the Arts". Archived from the original on October 6, 2014. Retrieved October 5, 2014.
  5. ^ "Past Winners & Finalists". Pen/Faulkner Foundation. Archived from the original on December 21, 2013. Retrieved February 12, 2014.
  6. ^ Scott, A.O. (June 18, 2006). "Son & Survivor". New York Times Review of Books. Retrieved February 12, 2014.
  7. ^ Treisman, Rebecca (September 25, 2013). "Congratulations, Donald Antrim". The New Yorker. Retrieved February 12, 2014.
  8. ^ Antrim, Donald (December 25, 2000). "Black Mountain, 1977". The New Yorker. Retrieved February 18, 2014.
  9. ^ Antrim, Donald (June 17, 2002). "I Bought A Bed". The New Yorker. Retrieved February 18, 2014.
  10. ^ Antrim, Donald (February 17, 2003). "AKA Sam". The New Yorker. Retrieved February 18, 2014.
  11. ^ Antrim, Donald (April 21, 2003). "Ad Nauseam". The New Yorker. Retrieved February 18, 2014.
  12. ^ Antrim, Donald (December 22, 2003). "Church". The New Yorker. Retrieved February 18, 2014.
  13. ^ Antrim, Donald (March 15, 2004). "The Kimono". The New Yorker. Retrieved February 18, 2014.
  14. ^ Antrim, Donald (September 3, 2007). "A Man In The Kitchen". The New Yorker. Retrieved February 18, 2014.
  15. ^ Antrim, Donald (November 4, 2013). "Fed". The New Yorker. Retrieved August 24, 2019.
  16. ^ Antrim, Donald (July 16, 2015). "The Unprotected Life". The New Yorker (Page Turner blog). Retrieved August 24, 2019.
  17. ^ Antrim, Donald (February 18, 2019). "Everywhere and Nowhere: A Journey Through Suicide". The New Yorker. Retrieved August 24, 2019.

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