Chad Harbach

Chad Harbach at the 2011 Texas Book Festival.

Chad Harbach is an American writer. An editor at the journal n + 1, he is best known as author of the 2011 novel The Art of Fielding.

Background and education

Harbach grew up in Racine, Wisconsin, his father an accountant, his mother the head of a Montessori school.^[1] Harbach graduated from Harvard University, where he became friendly with fellow writers and journalists Keith Gessen and Benjamin Kunkel.^[2] He received an M.F.A. from the University of Virginia.^[3]

n + 1

In 2004, Mark Greif, Gessen, Harbach, Kunkel, and Marco Roth launched the literary journal n + 1;^[4] Harbach had come up with the name as early as 1998.^[5] Harbach is both an editor and writer for the journal, contributing essays on environmentalism, David Foster Wallace, and the Boston Red Sox.^[6]

The Art of Fielding

Harbach worked on his baseball novel, The Art of Fielding, for nine years.^[7] In high school, Harbach had played baseball, along with golf and basketball; in March, 2010, he told Bloomberg News, “What fascinates me about baseball is that although it’s a team game, and a team becomes a kind of family, the players on the field are each very much alone. Your teammates depend on you and support you, but at the moments that count they can’t bail you out.”^[8] After a heated auction, the book was acquired and published by Little, Brown in the fall of 2011. A Vanity Fair e-book describing the writing and publication of the novel was recently released.

References

1. ^ Philip Boroff, "Unemployed Harvard Man Auctions Baseball Novel for $650,000," Bloomberg.com, March 31, 2010.
2. ^ Gessen, "How a Book is Born."
3. ^ Boroff, "Harvard Man Auctions Baseball Novel," Bloomberg.com
4. ^ Susan Hodara, "Intellectual Entrepreneurs: A highbrow journal rises in an era of sound bites," Harvard Magazine, January–February, 2010.
5. ^ A.O. Scott, "Among the Believers," The New York Times Magazine," September 11, 2005.
6. ^ n + 1 Archive Chad Harbach
7. ^ Boroff, "Harvard Man Auctions Baseball Novel," Bloomberg.com
8. ^ Boroff, "Harvard Man Auctions Baseball Novel," Bloomberg.com

External links

• n + 1 Archive Chad Harbach
• Chad Harbach and The Art of Fielding on NPR
• Chad Harbach discusses writing programs on NPR
• The New York Times Book Review on The Art of Fielding
• A.O. Scott in The New York Times Magazine on n + 1

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