Ben Lerner
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Benjamin S. Lerner (born February 4, 1979) is an American poet, novelist, essayist, and critic.
He has been a Fulbright Scholar, a finalist for the National Book Award, a Howard Foundation Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a MacArthur Fellow.
He received the "Preis der Stadt Münster für International Poesie" in 2011, making him the first American to be given the prestigious award.
Lerner teaches at Brooklyn College, where he was named a Distinguished Professor of English in 2016.
Life and work
Lerner was born and raised in Topeka, Kansas, which appears in each of his books of poetry. Harriet Lerner, a clinical psychologist, is his mother. He is a 1997 graduate of Topeka High School, where he participated in debate and forensics, winning the 1997 National Forensic League National Tournament in International Extemporaneous Speaking. He studied with poet C. D. Wright and earned a B.A. An MFA in poetry and political theory.
Lerner was given the Hayden Carruth award for his cycle of 52 sonnets, The Lichtenberg Figures. It was named one of the year's top poets in 2004 by the Library Journal.
Lerner went to Madrid, Spain, where he wrote his second book of poetry, Angle of Yaw, which was published in 2006. It was selected as a finalist for the National Book Award. Mean Free Path, his third poetry collection, was published in 2010.
Lerner's debut, Leaving the Atocha Station, appeared in 2011 and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award for first fiction and the New York Public Library's Young Lions Award. Geoff Dyer wrote in The Guardian, "a work so luminously original in style and form as to seem as if it were a premonition, a comet from the future." Lerner's second book, 10:04, received the Terry Southern Prize from The Paris Review, an excerpt. Maggie Nelson's book "near perfect piece of literature" was described as a "near perfect piece of literature" while writing in the Los Angeles Review of Books. In The New York Times Book Review, Lerner's 2019 book The Topeka School was praised as "a high-water mark in recent American fiction." In The New York Times Magazine, Giles Harvey called The Topeka School "the best book of his generation" by the most gifted writer of his time. The Los Angeles Review of Books, Frieze, Harper's, Kunst criticism, and literary review among other publications have published Lerner's essays, art criticism, and literary criticism. The Topeka School was a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Lerner began editing poetry for Critical Quarterly, a British academic journal. He became Harper's first poetry editor in 2016. He has worked at California College of the Arts and University of Pittsburgh, and in 2010, he joined the MFA program at Brooklyn College.
Lerner became a Fellow of the New York Institute for Humanities in 2016. He was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2015.
Awards
- 2003 – Hayden Carruth Award
- 2003–2004 – Fulbright Fellowship
- 2006 – Finalist, National Book Award for Angle of Yaw.
- 2006 – Finalist, Northern California Book Awards for Angle of Yaw
- 2007 – Kansas Notable Book for Angle of Yaw
- 2010–2011 – Howard Foundation Fellowship
- 2011 – Preis der Stadt Münster für internationale Poesie
- 2011 – Finalist, Los Angeles Times Book Award for first fiction
- 2012 – Finalist, Young Lions Fiction Award of the New York Public Library
- 2012 – The Believer Book Award
- 2012 – Finalist, William Saroyan International Prize for Writing
- 2012 – Finalist, PEN/Bingham Award
- 2013 – Finalist, James Tait Black Memorial Prize
- 2013 – Guggenheim Fellowship
- 2014 – Terry Southern Fiction Prize from The Paris Review
- 2014 – Finalist, Folio Prize
- 2017 - named one of Granta's best young American novelists
- 2015–2020 Winner, MacArthur Foundation Fellowship
- 2019 Finalist, Folio Prize
- 2019 Finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award
- 2019 Winner, Kansas Book Award
- 2019 Winner, Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction
- 2020 Finalist, The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction