Ben Marcus

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American author and professor

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nameBen Marcus
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captionMarcus at Lannan Center
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nationalityAmerican
alma_materNew York University;
Brown University
genreShort Story, Novel
movementExperimental literature;
Postmodernist
spouseHeidi Julavits
childrenDelia Marcus and Solomon Marcus
website
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Life

Marcus grew up in Austin, the son of a retired mathematician and the literary critic and Virginia Woolf scholar Jane Marcus. His father is Jewish and his mother is of Irish Catholic background; Marcus had a Bar Mitzvah.

Marcus received his bachelor's degree in philosophy from New York University and an MFA from Brown University.

Marcus is a professor at Columbia University School of the Arts. He is the editor of The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories, and the fiction editor at The American Reader. For several years he was the fiction editor of Fence.

Marcus is married to the writer Heidi Julavits, with whom he has two children. They live in New York City and also have a seasonal house in Maine.

Influences

Marcus's influences include Virginia Woolf, Franz Kafka, Donald Barthelme, Richard Yates, Flannery O'Connor, Thomas Bernhard, Padgett Powell, J. M. Coetzee, David Ohle, Kōbō Abe, Garielle Lutz, and George Saunders.

Awards and honours

Bibliography

Novels

Short story collections

Short stories

Other works

  • Text for the photography book by Kahn & Selesnick Scotlandfuturebog (2002). Aperture Foundation, New York City, .
  • The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories (2004), editor
  • The Moors (2010)
  • Chemical Seuss, from benmarcus.com
  • Thomas Bernhard, from benmarcus.com
  • On the Lyric Essay, from benmarcus.com
  • Why experimental fiction threatens to destroy publishing, Jonathan Franzen, and life as we know it: A correction, a response to an essay by Mr. Franzen, from Harpers.org

References

References

  1. (21 February 2014). "Ben Marcus: 'We can contain such secret misery and perversion'".
  2. "Q&A; with Novelist Ben Marcus, Author of 'The Flame Alphabet' – Tablet Magazine".
  3. (11 October 2010). "Ben Marcus interview".
  4. Julavits, Heidi. (2024-07-15). "I Put Up a Fence in Maine. Why Did It Cause Such a Fuss?". The New York Times Magazine.
  5. "Yaddo Whiting Writers' Award Recipients 1985 - 2012".
  6. (March 2006). "NEA Fellowships 40-Years". National Endowment for the Arts.
  7. "Morton Dauwen Zabel Award".
  8. "Creative Capital Announces 2009 Artists". Creative Capital Foundation.
  9. "Congratulating the 2013 / 2014 Berlin Prize Recipients". The American Academy in Berlin.
  10. "2013 Fellows in the United States and Canada".
  11. Alison Flood. (13 June 2014). "Frank O'Connor prize shortlist pits 'masters' against first-timers". The Guardian.
  12. (November 27, 2013). "The 2014 Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize Shortlist". Book Trade.

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