Donald Antrim

American novelist

Donald Antrim

Born| 1958 (age 66–67)
Sarasota, Florida, U.S.
Occupation| Professor
Language| English
Alma mater| Brown University
Genres| Novels, short stories, memoir
Literary movement| Postmodernism
Years active| 1993–present
Notable works| Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World (1993)
The Verificationist (2000)
Notable awards| MacArthur 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

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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

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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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This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (October 2017)

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### Novels

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* Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World (1993, ISBN 0-375-72503-2)
* The Hundred Brothers (1998, ISBN 0-517-70310-6)
* The Verificationist (2000, ISBN 0-679-76943-9)

### Short fiction

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Collections

* The Emerald Light in the Air : Stories (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014.) Collects seven stories originally published in the New Yorker between 1999 and 2014.

Stories

* "An Actor Prepares" (New Yorker, June 21, 1999)
* "Pond, with Mud" (New Yorker, October 20, 2003)
* "Solace" (New Yorker, April 4, 2005)
* "Another Manhattan" (New Yorker, December 22, 2008)
* "He Knew" (New Yorker, May 9, 2011)
* "Ever Since" (New Yorker, March 12, 2012)
* "The Emerald Light in the Air" (New Yorker, February 3, 2014)

Stories excerpted from novels

* "Y Chromosome" (New Yorker, November 18, 1996) (from The Hundred Brothers)
* "The Pancake Supper" (New Yorker, December 7, 1999) (from The Verificationist)

### Non-fiction

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Books

* The Afterlife: A Memoir (2006, ISBN 0-312-42635-6)
* One Friday in April: A Story of Suicide and Survival (2021, ISBN 978-1324005568)

Essays and reporting

* Black Mountain 1977[8]
* I Bought A Bed[9]
* A.K.A. Sam[10]
* Ad Nauseam[11]
* Church[12]
* The Kimono[13]
* A Man in the Kitchen[14]
* Fed[15]
* The Unprotected Life[16]
* Everywhere and Nowhere: A Journey Through Suicide[17]

## See also

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* Novels portal

* Postmodern literature
* Hysterical realism

## References

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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.

## External links

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* Antrim interview
* Flak magazine interview Archived November 24, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
* irreal (re)views: Irrealism in the U.S.A. (includes review of The Hundred Brothers)
* Salon.com review of The Verificationist

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