Ben Marcus

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Ben Marcus (born October 11, 1967 in Chicago ) is an American author.

Life

Marcus grew up in Austin, Texas ; his mother Jane taught feminist literature at the University of Texas at Austin . While they one Irish - Catholic has the background, Ben followed the Jewish faith of his father and received his Bar Mitzvah .

Jane Marcus later taught at the City University of New York , and Ben studied at New York University . After completing his bachelor's degree in philosophy , he completed the MFA program at Brown University .

Marcus has been writing since the 1990s; He has published in Harper's Magazine , The New Yorker , The New York Times , Salon.com , Time Magazine and Webforum Conjunctions , among others . For several years he was co-editor of the fiction section of the literary magazine Fence from Albany , New York .

Marcus is a lecturer at Columbia University in New York City . He lives here too. In the summer he goes to Brooklin , Maine . His first novel The Age of Wire and String was published by Alfred A. Knopf in New York City in 1995, and Ben Marcus first became known to the German public in 2012 with the translation of his novel The Flame Alphabet , in German the flame alphabet .

He has a child with his wife, the writer Heidi Julavits .

Prizes and awards

• 2000: National Endowment for the Arts Scholarship for Creative Writing
• 2013: Guggenheim scholarship in the creative arts category , fiction department .
• 2013: Marcus received the Mary Ellen von der Heyden Berlin Prize in Fiction from the American Academy in Berlin and was a Fellow of the Academy in autumn 2013.
• 2014: Nomination for the Wingate Literary Prize for Flame Alphabet .

Publications

Novels

• The Age of Wire and String . Alfred A. Knopf, New York City 1995, ISBN 0-679-42660-4 .
• Notable American Women . Alfred A. Knopf, New York City 2002, ISBN 0-375-71378-6 .
• The Flame Alphabet . Alfred A. Knopf, New York City 2012, ISBN 978-0-307-37937-5 .
  • German by Thomas Melle : Flammenalphabet . Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-455-40370-1 .
• Leaving the Sea . Alfred A. Knopf, New York City, USA 2014, ISBN 978-0-307-37938-2 .
  • German by Thomas Melle and Gerhard Henschel : Go ashore . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-455-40336-7 .
• New American Stories . Vintage, New York City, USA 2015, ISBN 978-0-804173544 .

Novella

• with illustrations by Matthew Ritchie : The Father Costume . Artspace Books, 2002, ISBN 1-891273035 .

as editor

• The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories. Anchor Books, New York 2004, ISBN 1-400-03482-5 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Ben Marcus in the catalog of the German National Library
• Author's website
• Publisher information on the author and work at Hoffmann and Campe
• Reading in November 2013: video with sign language interpreter (double reading together with Kiran Desai )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ben Marcus. international literature festival berlin, 2013, accessed on January 22, 2015 . 
2. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from January 22nd, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Words from Fire. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung . August 12, 2012, p. 27.
4. ↑ http://arts.gov/sites/default/files/NEA_lit.pdf
5. ^ John Simon Guggenheim Foundation: Ben Marcus. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, accessed February 7, 2016 . 
6. ↑ Ben Marcus as Mary Ellen of the Heyden Fiction Fellow at the American Academy ( Memento of the original from January 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.