(1979-02-04) February 4, 1979 (age 45) Topeka, Kansas, U.S.
Education
Brown University (BA, MFA)
Genre
Poetry, novels, essays
Notable awards
Fulbright Scholar Guggenheim Fellowship Believer Book Award MacArthur Fellowship
Benjamin S. Lerner (born February 4, 1979)[1] is an American poet, novelist, essayist, critic and teacher. The recipient of fellowships from the Fulbright, Guggenheim, and MacArthur Foundations, Lerner has been a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, among many other honors.[2][3] Lerner teaches at Brooklyn College, where he was named a Distinguished Professor of English in 2016.[4]
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^"Writers Speak | Ben Lerner in conversation with Duncan White". mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu.
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Benjamin S. Lerner (born February 4, 1979) is an American poet, novelist, essayist, critic and teacher. The recipient of fellowships from the Fulbright...
The Topeka School is a 2019 novel by the American novelist and poet BenLerner about a high school debate champion from Topeka, Kansas in the 1990s. The...
Atocha Station (2011) is the debut novel by American poet and critic BenLerner. It won the 2011 Believer Book Award. The first-person narrator of the...
describe a wave of very good American novels by the likes of Sheila Heti, BenLerner, Teju Cole, Jenny Offill, and Tao Lin, among others, as well as the multivolume...
House, and as Quinn Goldberg in Project Almanac. Lerner appeared in the feature film Envy, as the son of Ben Stiller and Rachel Weisz's characters. In addition...
December 2016. Retrieved 12 December 2016. "Emma Cline Wins Plimpton Prize; BenLerner Wins Terry Southern Prize". The Paris Review. 12 March 2014. Retrieved...
married to Steve Lerner, a psychologist and filmmaker, with whom she has two sons: Matt Lerner, the co-founder of Walk Score, and BenLerner, a writer and...
where he studied 19th-century English literature under poet and novelist BenLerner, and received his B.A. in English. He received his M.F.A. in poetry from...
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Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow, and The Four Lives of Mundy Tolliver by Ben Lucien Burman, while juror Harris F. Fletcher recommended The Street of the...
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Frank Kermode Colin Kidd India Knight Kevin Kopelson John Lanchester BenLerner Patricia Lockwood Colin MacCabe Donald MacKenzie Hilary Mantel Adam Mars-Jones...
writing called "autofiction." Fellow autofictioners have praised his work. BenLerner said, "One thing I like about Tao’s writing is how beside the point for...
Eisenman, painter LaToya Ruby Frazier, photographer and video artist BenLerner, writer Mimi Lien, set designer Lin-Manuel Miranda, playwright, songwriter...
studying English. On the sonic side, Hall has cited Stephen Steinbrink, BenLerner, Greta Kline, and Phil Elverum as inspirations. Hall's earliest musical...
was "radical and unforgettable." Writing in The Paris Review, novelist BenLerner described Keats's Odes as "risky, passionate criticism" and "a brilliant...
(January 29, 2024). "Ben Affleck, Matt Damon Reteam for Crime Thriller 'Animals'". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved January 29, 2024. Lerner, George (March...
is a German poet, novelist and literary translator. He has translated BenLerner and other American poets. 2003: Preisträger der Akademie Graz 2004: Kranichsteiner...
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