Donald Antrim

Donald Antrim (born 1958 in Miami, Florida)^{[citation needed]} 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 twenty best writers under the age of forty.^[1]

Antrim is a frequent contributor of fiction to The New Yorker and has written a number of critically acclaimed novels, including The Verificationist and The Hundred Brothers, which was a finalist for the 1998 PEN/Faulkner Award in fiction. He is also the author of The Afterlife, a 2006 memoir about his mother, Louanne Self. 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.

Antrim is the brother of the artist Terry Leness and the son of Harry Antrim, a scholar of T. S. Eliot. Antrim has been associated with the writers David Foster Wallace, Jonathan Franzen, and David Means.

He has 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, for spring 2009. Antrim teaches in the MFA program at Columbia University. He lives in Brooklyn.

Bibliography

• Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World (1993, ISBN 0375725032)
• The Hundred Brothers (1998, ISBN 0517703106)
• The Verificationist (2000, ISBN 0679769439)
• The Afterlife: A Memoir (2006, ISBN 0312426356)

See also

Novels portal

• Postmodern literature
• Hysterical realism

References

1. ^ 'New Yorker' Publishes 'Under 40' Fiction List - 6/14/1999 - Publishers Weekly

External links

• Antrim interview
• Flak magazine interview
• 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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Name	Antrim, Donald
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Short description	Novelist
Date of birth	1958
Place of birth	Miami, Florida, United States
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